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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...account of a clinical lead nurse talking about the care home and what they are doing to help Susie to live well. Identify three things the support team are doing to help Susie to live well. While you read try to imagine yourself in a similar living situation. What would you want the supporting team to do to help you live well? Clinical lead nurse I’d like to describe it...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...account describes a flourishing trade in patent medicines. Everyone seems to buy remedies – even the very poor, who can buy a few pills for a halfpenny – and to take them frequently. Medicines were taken routinely, to counter constipation and as tonics to strengthen the body, as well as to treat illnesses. The remedies claimed to treat a huge range of complaints,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...accountability. It was what can we do together to help these students? I think that when teachers feel success with their English learners, they want more. It’s like a piece of candy. When you are successful with some of your harder students to teach, it feels good when you’re successful. So if you can reach out and find people to help you be successful, you’ll...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...account for this – compared with same period in previous year reported crime actually rose by 17%, 44% of locals felt safer, but 84% would not enter certain areas – a rise. Critics, eg Save the Children in Scotland, argue the scheme is a violation of young people's rights and question its success. Government support for scheme. Strathclyde chief constable recognized...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...account Mairead’s personal circumstances. However, is it appropriate for a frequently repeated offence? The guidelines say that persistent offending might justify a community sentence or even imprisonment. However, being a sole carer for her child is a mitigating factor (i.e. one which might reduce Mairead’s sentence). Does this change your view of the appropriate...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...account for some cases of obesity involve the possibility that some of our ancestors might have had adaptive responses to nutritional shortages. One of the most interesting of these explanations is known as the 'thrifty phenotype’ hypothesis (Ozanne and Hales, 2002); it suggests that poor fetal nutrition leads to adaptive changes in physiology that prepare an adult for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...account how much tax will be deducted from your gross income. What about tax? While up to 25% of your pension pot can be taken tax-free, the other 75% counts as taxable income if it is taken as a lump sum payment. Any annual income you take – for example from an annuity you buy with your pension pot – will also count as taxable income. Income tax will apply when your...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...account for each player’s item. [Mini shopping trolley filled with a piee of card which reads ‘Ideas’.] Similarly, when you write for academic purposes, you are not only permitted but often encouraged to draw upon the works of others. For example, you may have come across the quote attributed to Isaac Newton in 1675, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs