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Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...educational achievement. As a result the solutions provided are pitched at the individual or family level. 3. In terms of children, which borough in London is England’s ‘most obese council’? Comment In the ninth paragraph Cohen reports that Brent is England’s ‘most obese council’; it is also England’s ninth poorest. Of the ten areas with the most children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...educated, with athletes from private schools dominating in rowing and equestrian events (Vasagar, 2012). However, Activity 4 illustrates that research can only tell part of a story and that there will always be exceptions to statistics such as these. Many athletes come from backgrounds in which family resources are limited. This suggests that although environmental...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...education. For example, when you think about mathematics, do you see it mainly as a collection of topics (mathematical content) or as a way of thinking (mathematical process)? Later in the course you will be asked to consider further the distinction between content and process in mathematics. You will also be asked to consider a particular organising framework for...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...educational qualifications and those who left school prior to 16 people living in rural areas people whose first language is not English. (NHS Digital, 2019, p. 11) To address this, NHS Digital published a guide to assist commissioning groups and NHS managers to develop initiatives to enable people who may currently be or feel excluded to become ‘digital citizens’ and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...educational achievement for social workers and the regulation of professional boundaries. They observe, however, that while in many respects this is likely to be desirable, there is also the risk that professionalisation can promote a kind of ‘occupational closure’, marginalising and possibly devaluing other forms of social support and intervention. Holland and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...education, scientific research, and governance, while others are left to die a slow death. Because it's not obviously profitable to create media in “minority” languages, the growth and enrichment of those languages suffer, and many remain entirely undocumented. Just a few hundred years ago, the Latin alphabet was largely unknown on the continents of Africa, the...
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Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact
Science, Maths & Technology

Rare diseases: low numbers, high impact

...educate clinicians, research scientists, and the public, on these diseases. What causes rare diseases? Most rare diseases (thought to be around 80%) have an inheritable genetic origin. These include HD and CF, mentioned above, and also a group of rare diseases collectively called Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCLs). The NCLs include CLN3 disease (the juvenile onset form...
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Article 10 mins
How to manage the digital-related stress of technology
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to manage the digital-related stress of technology

...educational posts, inspirational quotes, your favourite comedian, or funny cat videos. It is important to minimise the negative while also maximising the positive, as a recent study found that while negative interactions and experiences on social media were related to higher levels of depression and anxiety; more positive interactions and experiences on social media were...
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Article 10 mins