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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...analysis. This analysis can help you deal with any weaknesses, which may hinder any opportunities and improve your successes. Considering and reviewing your current situation and planning a better future is a process, which should be repeated and revisited. It may be that you would find it useful to discuss your situation and ideas with friends, family, or even your...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...analysis of this event highlighted the ways in which participants described themselves in terms of shared social identities, as members of the St Pauls community. To be from St Pauls for some people meant being oppressed by institutions such as the police, being exploited by financial institutions and living in poverty within an affluent society. Accordingly, the police,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exercise and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exercise and mental health

...data across gender, for example, if there's coherence across nations for the effect size – how big a change occurs. For all of those things, depression certainly has been shown to be improved [as a result of] physical exercise. Prof. Adrian Taylor - Exercise Psychologist, Exeter University: Not always, and if you look at the more rigorous trials, a more recent review...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...data from Post-Polio Health International, n.d.; note that ‘n.d.’ indicates that no date was given). Figure 11 (a) Public health poster on TB prevention in the USA in 1941. (b) Children paralysed by polio in ‘iron lungs’ to help them breathe, USA in the 1950s. So what gave public health officials like Stewart such confidence that the threat from infectious...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind
Money & Business

UK clothing manufacturing booms, but workers' rights lag behind

...Data from a small-scale survey conducted as part of the research point to an average monthly wage of £584 and a weekly household income of £229 (and these figures are likely to overstate actual wages and incomes across the local industry). Evidence we collected suggests that the underpaid wage sum for the East Midlands alone amounts to £1 million per week. In other...
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Article 5 mins
What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...data which revealed that 66 of the 152 council areas with responsibility for schools would have more primary-age pupils than places for them in 2016-17, rising to 85 areas in 2017-18 and 94 areas in 2018-19. The government response to the accountability gap – which has already led to issues such as the Trojan Horse affair in Birmingham – has been to implement the...
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Article 5 mins
What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are premature babies telling us about antibiotic resistance?

...data demonstrates the collateral damage these drugs can do,” Dantas said. “If doctors give penicillin, it makes sense that you will see enrichment in the proportion of bacteria resistant to penicillin. But perhaps a vancomycin-resistant gene is nearby. A doctor may not even be giving vancomycin, but vancomycin resistance increases because the genes happen to be...
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Article 5 mins
Explainer: how hostile is space?
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: how hostile is space?

...data received from them. You can see effects of this damage in a lot of the videos by astronaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. In full screen and streaming at highest quality, you will find white spots in the darker areas of the picture. These are caused by radiation damage to the sensor, which allows signal to be created by the temperature of...
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Article 15 mins