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Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...write down your concerns, and take these with you into the consultation, that way you can be sure to get your key points across when discussing things. As a general rule, it is better to seek help even if things aren’t that serious, than to wait and have things get a lot worse. 3: Mental health matters [Werry Centre Logo] As a lecturer and researcher with an interest in...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...write, to acquire the academic and textual conventions of a language and also to extend grammatical structures, expand vocabulary and refine pragmatic conventions. First language acquisition may take more time than you thought but its outcomes are relatively uniform (under the condition that schooling is universal in a population). Putting a number on how long it takes to...
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Article 5 mins
Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual
Education & Development

Double trouble: my experience of studying part-time as a mixed-race individual

...write] This brings us to May 2022 where Covid is still around but ceremonies have been back and my oh my, do the families of graduates know how to celebrate! I graduated in a beautiful cathedral and will forever have the memory of the stained-glass windows, the lanterns and the joy all around that you can’t help but absorb even when your minute of high-stakes walking is...
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Article 5 mins
Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two

...writing before sharing it with Downing Street. Hours later, the solicitor Kevin Winters called me with the news that Kelly was out; that he had been granted temporary release pending an application to the Sentence Review Commission to have his licence restored. It was the signal that the IRA statement was now imminent. That happened the next day - July 28th 2005, but not...
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Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...write two sentences describing each building. Use the nouns and adjectives from the boxes below, and don't forget to put the appropriate endings! You can either use the construction El edificio / El museo / La casa es… or Es un edificio / una casa / un museo… Construya frases. Ejemplos El museo es enorme. Es un edificio educativo. Answer Here is a possible answer: (a)...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: askii in Flickr made available under Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...creative consultancy or sales promotion). This casts some doubt on its position as a core competence. Furthermore, much advertising and promotion thinking risks being short to medium term because the people and organisations involved are constantly changing. Traditional rivalries between marketing communications disciplines (such as media advertising and public...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Human Resource Management and EDI
Money & Business

Human Resource Management and EDI

...creative and novel solutions to problems and issues. Diversity thus can be understood to mean that staff have different personal, social and cultural backgrounds and characteristics...Human Resource Management and EDI: 1.4 Inclusion - Research has considered both the persistence of discriminatory practices in work in spite of decades of equality legislation and how and...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs