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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...English Dictionary (2021) as ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy’. Mguni et al. (2012, p. 3) accept that wellbeing and resilience are linked, but they also ask whether wellbeing and resilience are ‘two sides of the same coin or is it possible to be resilient but have low levels of wellbeing?’ They go on to explain the difference between the two...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...English, French and American versions, so the reader will come across occasional references and allusions to developments which are out of context with the period when the essays were first written. I shall draw to your attention any that affect your reading of the shortened version of the essays. I also want to convey directly the flavour of the whole work, which has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...English and American history, they may also know nothing about it. For your purposes here, however, that should not be a problem. The commentary on the website provides some essential context, particularly in pointing out that Williams’s ideas were unusual for his time and contrasting them with the then dominant ‘old European’ way of close identification between...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...English Midlands. She manages a small team of part-time youth workers and between them they provide a range of daytime, evening and weekend opportunities for young people living in the local area. I’m based in a youth and community centre which shares a site with a secondary school, and the school is a key partner for me. I’ve established a good relationship with the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...English- and French-speaking Canadians as well as first-nation Canadians. Another example is land rights claims in the post-colonial period, promoting the status and rights of groups such as native Americans, Australian Aborigines, and the New Zealand Maoris. The fourth debate concerns how far the stretching of rights claims can go. Can they be expanded indefinitely? To...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...English Reference Dictionary defines as ‘of or having the nature of an image of portrait’. While the dictionary also mentions ‘(of a statue) following conventional type’, the word is used to describe something worth noticing and worth commenting upon; anything assigned ‘iconic’ status is identifiable and special, just as the religious icons are recognisable....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...English history showing people ice-skating or walking on a frozen River Thames. While this spell of coldness may have caused considerable hardship in Europe and other temperate regions, global cooling had rather different implications for the island peoples of the Pacific. Nunn (2003) describes the likely effects of what he calls the ‘AD 1300 Event’: Almost all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...English soldier says in Shakespeare’s Henry V : ‘We know enough if we know we are the king’s men. Our obedience to the king wipes the crime of it out of us.’ Not that his obedience can never be criminal; for when he violates the rules of war, superior orders are no defence. The atrocities that he commits are his own; the war is not. It is conceived, both in...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs