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The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...attention is a spectrum of youth work practice. [Described image] Figure 5 The spectrum of youth work practice At one end of the spectrum there is open-access provision – open to all young people, who choose whether they will participate or not. At the other end there is practice that is provided for specific young people – sometimes known as ‘targeted’ provision....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...attention of the population at large through Lord Richard Attenborough’s character who created a dinosaur theme park. It turns out that the story contained a certain amount of ‘poetic license’; DNA simply doesn’t survive that long. In fact, even under ideal preservation conditions, it has been calculated that the absolute maximum time after death that DNA can be...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...attention to the fact that there are costs and problems associated with rights and the progressive legalisation of the international order as well as benefits...Rights and justice in international relations: 5.3 Problems with international rights - The international human rights discourse claims that the value of its conception of rights lies in it being universal,...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...attention from the media and within sport. Generally speaking, the pelvic floor muscles are usually only discussed in relation to childbirth and ageing, but physical activity can also be a contributing factor to developing pelvic floor dysfunction. Physical activity brings many physical, social and psychological benefits but pelvic floor health may be the only area of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...attention immediately. The health monitoring company system sends an alert to John’s devices which he must acknowledge. If John fails to contact the health monitoring company, medical personnel will be dispatched to his location. This M2P interaction helps to prevent John from entering a diabetic coma. These are some additional examples of where M2P interactions in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...attention to individual elements but also to consider how these elements fit together. This is an entirely appropriate position for systems engineering. The whole (system) is understandable only in terms of its components and the proper relationship between them, and the components of a system may have no meaning other than as part of the system. The desire to separate...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...Attention is drawn to the entrance of the main room by the pilasters, also in Corinthian style. The window at the far end would have provided a through draft in the hot summer months, while a well to one side gave access to fresh water. At the centre is an elaborate rectangular mosaic, known as a “carpet”, with geometric patterns, which would have contributed to the...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...attention’. The first modern Olympics were held in Athens rather than their original site of Olympia, partly for political reasons (Athens was now the capital of the recently established Greek nation) and partly due to the availability of infrastructure. A relatively small number of participants attended these Games and the quality of the athletes was variable to say...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs