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Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...attention to a number of things that can prevent people having equal rights. Write down at least three of them. Answer The barriers Lee and Simon identify include: lack of education poor housing lack of employment opportunities poverty low expectations people not knowing they have rights government money being spent on the wrong things. People with learning disabilities...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...attention to blocking all the unwanted air leakage paths shown in Figure 17, while maintaining the essential ones. In new construction attention to detail is important. It is easy to leave air gaps around windows and where pipes penetrate walls. Sheet plastic vapour barriers are often built into walls, especially in timber-framed construction. For really good airtightness...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...attention from historians. The York Dispensary is the subject of one of the few detailed studies, and, if it is typical, then dispensaries were lively institutions, responsive to a wide range of medical needs within the community. Founded in 1788, the York Dispensary quickly became an important source of medical care: in the 1880s, around 5,000 patients – roughly 10% of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...attention all the same. A tourist to Rome might well feel trite or belated – but not if he or she could channel Byron. For this reason, Murray’s guidebook excerpted this passage in its entirety, allowing tourists to play at being Byron on the spot, preferably by moonlight...Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour: 3.2 Rhyme - One of the things you may have discovered...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...attention to just a few kinds of case, and more willing to consider the complex relationships that ‘imagining’ has both to other mental acts and to the wider context in which it occurs. Vague and general though it may be, it is also a sense that has often been articulated and, as we will see, has had a role to play in talking of imagination. Activity 3 Consider the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...attention, they provide some of the best examples of migration studies. Although migration is widespread amongst bird species, not all species are migratory and in some species, not all populations of the same species migrate and sometimes not all members of a population migrate. For example, in many regions, including the British Isles, some populations of birds are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...attention – mathematics, science and English were among these subjects. This was because success and employment were predicated upon a society where ‘the idea of academic ability’ formed the basis for most types of learning as well as a measure of intelligence. Currently, society offers a wider range of employment opportunities that are not exclusively focused on...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...attention to the way Frau Schollweck speaks aloud. Glücklich machen mich Zwischenmenschlichebeziehungen, ich liebe Menschen, jeglicher Art. Ich mag gerne mich unterhalten mit Leuten, ich mag gern neue Sachen lernen, das lieb ich. Meine Freunde würden mich als etwas verrückt beschreiben, unangepasst, fleiβig. Activity 28 Have the transcript open, and read it out loud...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs