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Understanding economic inequality
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding economic inequality

...Everyday inequality - Inequality is a term that you encounter frequently in everyday life. It might refer to many different factors such as gender, social status, health or wealth. In this section you will explore different meanings of inequality. Activity 2 Inequality in everyday life Timing: Allow about 10 minutes The images below show some examples of how inequality...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music
Health, Sports & Psychology

Heroes and Villains: The Outlaw in Early American Folk Music

...everyday life of the performer and their audience. Yet, at the same time, folk music is extremely open to innovation. Because there is no definitive set version of a song, it can be interpreted and adapted to suit the character and concerns of the performer and listeners. The form this innovation takes may depend on the nature of the community within which the song is...
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Article 5 mins
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...everyday conversations. But the youth worker can’t use conversations as data without consent, unless they were to take the unusual and risky step of doing covert research. Covert research means not asking for consent, which raises ethical issues. In place of collecting evidence by observation, given the challenges in doing so, could useful information about this issue...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...English primary, special and independent schools (LGNTO, 2000) found that each school had an average of 8.5 (includes part-time) volunteer staff. Volunteers are clearly an important, if somewhat under-acknowledged, resource in many schools, and indeed, across a wider workforce...Teaching assistants: Support in action (Wales): 1.3 Professional and personal skills - Jean...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...everyday lifestyle? What goals are you hoping to achieve by studying this course? Considering noting down your responses to the questionnaire somewhere (in a notepad, or a Word document, etc.) so you can return to them later. Questionnaire about your learning Rate your answers to these questions on a scale of 1–5: 1 = never; 2 = once or twice; 3 = sometimes; 4 = many...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?
History & The Arts

The making of Industrial Britain: A gradual revolution?

...English legislature has been peculiarly attentive to the interests of commerce and manufactures”, and he added that “commerce and manufactures have accordingly been continually advancing during all this period”. “The cultivation and improvement of the country”, he said, “has, no doubt, been gradually advancing too; but it seems to have followed slowly, and at...
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Article 10 mins
What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

What does a Trump victory mean for Britain?

...English-speaking nations such as Canada or Australia as ways forward. On their own, however, they are inadequate substitutes for the scale of existing economic and security relations which root Britain firmly into a transatlantic community. Theresa May and a Known Unknown President Close relations between presidents and prime ministers have often personified UK-US...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...houses and associated estates for English and Scottish landowners into a predominantly poor rural subsistence economy with a tribal hierarchy. Many of the origins of Ireland’s troubles can be traced to this invasion. Some of the big houses are now hotels while others are publicly accessible National Trust properties. Find out more about the geology of Northern Ireland....
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Article 5 mins