Free resources from universities in Wales to help you take your first steps into higher education.
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Category: English Language
Mae'r Brifysgol Agored wedi ymuno â MoneySavingExpert (MSE) i gynhyrchu'r cwrs rhad ac am ddim newydd hwn i roi'r sgiliau a'r wybodaeth i chi feistroli eich arian. Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs gan y Brifysgol Agored, gyda chyngor ac arweiniad MSE.
Category: Money & Business
The Open University has joined forces with MoneySavingExpert (MSE) to give you the skills and knowledge to master your finances. Packed with videos, audios, quizzes and activities the course covers all the key aspects of personal finance in six sessions of study that each take around two hours to complete.
Category: Money & Business
As a young adult, it is essential to effectively manage your finances. You will learn how to budget effectively, and will be encouraged to start thinking about your financial future.
Category: Personal Finance
Facing setbacks and demotivation in research? Progress is rarely linear, and challenges like failed experiments or rejected proposals are a natural part of the journey. This course is designed to help you stay motivated, handle setbacks constructively, and turn obstacles into opportunities.
This course equips researchers across all fields and stages with practical strategies to enhance motivation and resilience. We'll explore both the psychological and practical aspects of staying productive and navigating research challenges.
The course covers strategies to maintain motivation and cultivate a growth mindset, constructive ways to handle setbacks and manage stress and practical activities designed to help you overcome research obstacles. Whether you are a PhD student, an early-career professional, or an experienced researcher, this course offers valuable tools to maintain productivity, resilience, and well-being throughout your research journey.
This course equips researchers across all fields and stages with practical strategies to enhance motivation and resilience. We'll explore both the psychological and practical aspects of staying productive and navigating research challenges.
The course covers strategies to maintain motivation and cultivate a growth mindset, constructive ways to handle setbacks and manage stress and practical activities designed to help you overcome research obstacles. Whether you are a PhD student, an early-career professional, or an experienced researcher, this course offers valuable tools to maintain productivity, resilience, and well-being throughout your research journey.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
If you feel that maths is a mystery that you want to unravel then this free course is for you. It will guide you through how numbers are put together, give you confidence with using percentages, fractions and negative numbers and provide you with problem solving skills for your everyday life and the wider world.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
Decode the mystery of maths, and improve your confidence in its everyday uses.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
This free course, Succeed with maths: part 2, is a sequel to Part 1, in which you will continue to develop your mathematical knowledge and skills using everyday examples. The course takes a look at measurement of length, mass and volume, negative numbers and how to use these, scientific notation (based upon powers of 10), shapes and how to calculate their properties before finally turning to how to construct and read from tables, charts and graphs. It provides a solid foundation for you to continue with studies in any subject which requires some degree of mathematical knowledge.
Category: Science, Maths & Technology
This free course gives an overview of the law of expert evidence, including practice and procedure, the duties and liabilities of experts, the question of how non-experts can adjudicate between the views of experts, and the increasing mathematisation of scientific evidence. The various issues are finally brought together in a case study of one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in recent years.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W250 Evidence law.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course W250 Evidence law.
Category: Society, Politics & Law
Free resources from The Open University to help you take your first steps into higher education in Northern Ireland.
Category: Education and Development