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Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...family, let alone provide money for anything more. We were a generation without advanced education or training, anxious about our future. Some of us had shown great promise at school, but now we were stuck, most of our parents could not pay for our further education and there were no national projects to employ us. And here we were, hating the place we loved, because it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...families, and it works very successfully there too. Candace Thille What difference does it make? How is that really any better than what we’re currently doing? We’ve done a number of evaluation studies to answer exactly that question, and the results have showed that the students, even though they took the class for half the time, with half the number of contacts...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...families in the UK? What have been some of the main popular misunderstandings about them? 2. What does the author suggest has been distinctive about parenting practices within African-Caribbean families? 3. What does the author mean by an ‘intersectional approach’, and how can it help to understand the social identities of young black women? 4. How might a better...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...families with children, unemployment, who had not been part of the post war beverage plan. SPEAKER 1 This series is about the poor in Britain today. NARRATOR In the 1980s, television entered the debate. Breadline Britain, a landmark TV series worked with social scientists to introduce a new element to the study of poverty. The participation of the general public in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...family and the importance of the family and different family structures and different family shapes that aren’t all the same, but the role of those informal relationships. So it’s not just about what happens in the NHS and indeed it’s not just about what people in government and policy makers say. The implementation of social policy covers a wide range of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch the following video in which Dr Sue Black OBE introduces the course. Transcript There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show you how other people have navigated their own unconventional careers. Importantly, you will hear about how they have got back to STEM employment after a career break. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...family, roles and status) Cultural (culture, subculture, social class system). Below you will see Figure 1, which adapts the above factors to a health behaviour context, providing a model which also explicitly emphasises, together with cultural factors, other features such as the economic environment as an element of the wider social context. [Figure 1] Source: Hastings...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...family? SPEAKER 1: It was really hard. It was-- I think when you are in so much pain and so much grief, you don't understand it yourself, anyways. It's really hard to find the words to describe it. And what I found is then trying to tell my family, because I couldn't explain it for myself, it was really hard to tell them. And when I did try and tell them, they all wanted...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs