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Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...account so that their benefits and other payments can be paid into an account which is separate from the family bank account and can be accessed separately. It is worth thinking about getting independent financial advice too. You may want to use an independent financial advisor, and free advice is available from Citizen’s Advice Bureau and Welfare Rights. There are...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...accountable for their writing within a student role. Consequently, an important element of your learning will be how to write the documents required within your own practice setting. The service users you work with (such as children and families, adults with mental health needs or older people) and also the setting will all impact on the kinds of documents you will write...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing music research
History & The Arts

Introducing music research

...account: sociological, cultural, historical, economic, political’ (Citron, 1990, p. 112). Thirdly, she highlights that when we are choosing works to include, ‘we have to confront the issue of what criteria we are imposing’ (Citron, 1990, p. 112)...Introducing music research: 2.3 New directions in feminist musicology - More recent feminist musicology aims at greater...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...account. Thus, for example, in writing report about these matters, it would be good statistical practice to include the counts of cases and deaths somewhere, even if not in the same table as that including the rates. Do you agree that Table 2.7 conforms to all of the four guidelines given at the beginning of this section? After you have produced a table for yourself, it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...account for the change in structure that so many industries seem to undergo? Why do most of the many small firms so common in the early years of new industries disappear to leave an established industry dominated by a few large firms? Why does the heterogeneity or extreme variety of those small firms in new industries give way to a much greater degree of similarity,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...accountable and more people in the team are accountable and responsible for the team’s performance or the team’s outcome. INTERVIEWER And it’s interesting hearing about the relationships and that sense of connectedness and how important it is, and stepping up amongst leaders and it’s fascinating to see. In terms of sports, is there, you know, developing team...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...account of carbon pricing by proxy through other measures, you know, some level of subsidy for onshore wind would still be justified. And I think the question with onshore wind is the question of local acceptability, which is obviously a legitimate issue, but there’s a lot of diversity around the country for example, Scotland is ploughing its way through with you know...
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Audio 5 mins
Introducing Homer's Iliad
History & The Arts

Introducing Homer's Iliad

...account. First, this summary has been stitched together from a wide range of sources. Versions of the Troy story don’t just appear in Homer: we have other literary sources, including fragments of rival epic poems about the war (one called the Cypria narrated its beginning, another called the Sack of Troy its end); a poem about the origins of the cosmos under Zeus’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs