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Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...account from the narrator heightens the sense of magic. This isn’t just in Tom’s imagination: something incredible is about to happen! Tom does of course use this extra hour of freedom to leave his bed, and discovers that the back door by the Grandfather clock no longer opens onto a tiny, walled-in courtyard but a huge and beautiful garden (the ‘midnight garden’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...accounts. Feeling alone. Feeling like people don’t really understand you. Feeling isolated. Wanting to be treated as a ‘normal’ person. People not realising you are ill or that you are unwell. People expecting you to look and act in certain ways because of your mental health. Being called names like ‘schitzo’. Name calling, feeling alone, singled out and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...account the past and the future – a person can build resilience before they hit crisis and be more likely to cope with problems that may be around the corner. Even if you think of yourself as a resilient person, this description of resilience as ‘dynamic’ means it may fluctuate during different phases of your life or in different situations. Southwick (2014)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...account the probably much larger number that became extinct before anybody had discovered and named them. The fact that organisms can become extinct before they have been described and named highlights the need to survey and quantify the occupants of the natural world. For example, consider just one group of animals – amphibians. New species of amphibian are still being...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...accounted for a further 7%, and many of the 17% of deaths attributed to ‘other causes’ were also due to infection, including TB and meningitis exacerbated by malnutrition, which contributes to over one-third of all child deaths. (Note that the ‘non-infectious neonatal causes’ depicted in the figure refer to deaths resulting from prematurity, birth asphyxia, trauma...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...account manager. Read: from The paragraph which begins: ‘In terms of the kind of teacher she would like to be’ (p. 104) to the start of The Lived Experience of Annie (p. 110) Discussion A key barrier across the papers was stereotypical presumptions about who people were, in relation to such things as sexuality, gender, leadership style and competence. In all the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Account, 3 September 1700, issue 798. British Library, Burney 123a. [Described image] Figure 8 Advertisement for sheet music in The Post Boy, 21 September 1700, issue 851. British Library, Burney 123a. Discussion The rivalry of Walsh and Vaillant and their attempts to win customers is plain to see in Walsh’s claims that his edition is better than that of Roger (the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...accounts, by some estimates, for nearly half of the British population (NatCen Social Research, 2016). Yet religion retains immense cultural influence, and the absolute numbers of religiously motivated people remain significant enough to require consideration in local and national policy decisions. A variety of religiously committed people are also regularly encountered...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs