Day 51, Year of #Mygration: Volunteering with Refugees

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This course is designed to give volunteers an understanding of the backgrounds, current situations and needs of refugees from a wide range of contexts. The course provides strategies and techniques for supporting the diverse needs of refugees and has a specific focus on language support, which may be provided in formal or informal settings (e.g. classrooms or informal support groups). The course has been developed by a group of experts from Crisis Classroom and Cambridge English and is hosted on The Open University's FutureLearn platform.

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Report calls for seven steps for equity for disabled students

A new collaborative report from The Open University and Disabled Students UK sets out a clear roadmap for improving the experiences of disabled doctoral students across the UK’s higher education sector.