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Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...work qualifications. Transcript Child criminal exploitation takes a variety of forms and there is confusion about what it encompasses – for instance, does it include children as well as young people? In short, it does, because in law children are defined as all those under 18 years of age. The concern about child criminal exploitation relates to those children who have...
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Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...work outside the home. However, in addition they suggest that there could be two plausible routes whereby difficult temperament could influence mothers’ decisions on whether to work outside the home. The first could be that mothers find the problems of rearing the child with difficult temperament too aversive and therefore opt to go out to work to avoid the hassles of...
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Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...work. Early childhood refers to a distinct phase of development, from birth to age 8, encompassing nutrition and physical and emotional well-being as well as cognitive growth. This phase overlaps with primary education, since most children go to school at age 5 or 6. Early childhood education is often distinct from primary education, focusing on young children’s social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...work for them (see Patronage). Cosimo’s grandson, Lorenzo, continued this patronage, encouraging a great flourishing of art, music and poetry. Humanism Humanism was the great intellectual movement of the Renaissance. Humanists rediscovered Greek or Latin classics, believing them to contain the lessons individuals needed to lead a moral and purposeful life. From this...
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Article 30 mins
Department of the Commons
Society, Politics & Law

Department of the Commons

...working to recognise the legitimacy of occupied buildings in the city and organising public discussion tables in occupied buildings where citizens share decision-making power with the Administration. It was initiated by local government and encourages people to participate through voting, organising and campaigning and public assembly. Dept of the Commons is local in...
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Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...working conditions, healthcare, crime: these issues are hotly debated in today's society. They are also issues that Robert Owen, seen by some as a visionary and by others as a knave and a charlatan, sought to address in the early 1800s. This free course, Robert Owen and New Lanark, uses a series of essays written by Owen to explore the ideas of this important and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...working on economics and development all my professional life, starting in the late sixties, so energy in relation to development has always been an important subject for me, but focussing on energy is really dating from about ten years ago when I started to work on the Stern Review which I began that work in 2005 and it was published in autumn 2006. RH: Whose idea was...
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Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...work on developing these, you will have strong basic (or ‘core’) skills to apply in any writing situation. For assistance with specific aspects of any course you are to study, always refer to any guidance notes or handbooks that have been provided. This course won't solve all your difficulties immediately; developing your writing skills is an ongoing process, and one...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs