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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...C (degrees Celsius) and 100 °C as the temperatures where water changes its state between ice, water and steam. The kelvin scale has units of the same size, but uses the coldest possible temperature as its lower limit. Heat is the measure of the motion of atoms in a substance. At zero on the kelvin scale, all motion in atoms ceases, it’s not possible to be any colder....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...c.1930. Documents such as this have prompted historians to view the education provided by Infant Welfare Centres as patronising. Here, mothers are taught in the same way as infants, by learning an ‘ABC’. Alternatively, the ‘ABC’ can be seen as a light-hearted celebration of the work of the centre, presented in a simple and appealing manner. Wellcome Library,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...C; (b) E...Emotions and emotional disorders: 2.5 The value of negative and positive moods and emotions - An evolutionary approach allows us to be open to the idea that negative as well as positive emotions have value. This is obvious for some negative emotions such as fear and anxiety; for example, in the context of escaping from a bear. It is not so obvious for sadness,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...C. (2008) ‘Convening publics: the parasitical spaces of public action’ in Cox, K., Low, M. and Robinson, J. (eds), The Sage Handbook of Political Geography, London, Sage. Barnett, C., Robinson, J. and Rose, G. (eds) (2008) Geographies of Globalisation: A Demanding World, London, Sage. Barnett, C., Cloke, P., Clarke, N. and Malpass, A. (2011) Globalizing...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...C. and Stewart, J. (1999) ‘“Market Workfare”: social security, social regulation and competitiveness in the 1990s’, Journal of Social Policy, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 73–93. Grover, C. and Stewart, J. (2000) ‘Modernizing social security? Labour and its welfare-to-work strategy’, Social Policy and Administration, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 235–52. Horton, J. and Shaw,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...c) cattle grazing on rotting food and waste from the informal rubbish tip; (d) the effect of an informal waste tipping process on the land and its surroundings – at the bottom of the tip, an industrious person scours the hillside for materials which can be reused, while her baby waits nearby sitting on the tip. When they made money they became richer and richer. They...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...c) This video begins in Bangladesh, a country that is becoming increasingly susceptible to cyclones and the wider impacts of climate change. Echoing Video 1, Video 3 opens with a reminder of which countries hold the power and influence in climate policy debates. Although highly vulnerable to the impact of the climate crisis, communities in the Global South are...
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Article 5 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...c.3. d.2. e.4. The correct answers are: 1 = a, 2 = d, 3 = c, 4 = e, 5 = b Discussion The top five uses of the internet by percentage of adults over 16 years of age are: Sending and receiving emails (86%) Finding information about goods or services (78%) Internet banking (73%) Reading online news (66%) Making video or voice calls (50%) Figure 1 shows the top five uses of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs