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An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...everyday life. It is almost inconceivable that you could spend a day without at least one event being influenced by a computer. Perhaps the word ‘computer’ automatically conjures up the image of a personal computer sitting on a desk, but in fact it is the computers you cannot see that influence your life the most. Typical examples of common products that may use these...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...everyday domestic settings that you can recognise as being very similar to the setting of your own life. Philip Pullman (2020) has written about how he combines the two, by setting his stories in our world, but in another time. This is probably because he wants to write about serious conditions and problems that many readers would recognise, like depression, but put them...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...everyday work. This section explores the diversity of professional written documents are how they are a fundamental aspect of social work practice. [A photograph of a student working at a desk at night.] Figure 4 Writing for study and work In this section you will: learn about the different functions of social work writing identify the differences between document types...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...English speaking countries, England has the lowest ranking for enjoyment and the lowest for pupil engagement in reading, except Australia (McGrane, et al., 2017). So sustained time in school needs to be set aside for reading, alone and with others, for hearing narratives, poetry and nonfiction, and for book talk and recommendations through responsive use of this pedagogy....
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Article 10 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...English, by Chloe O. Davis Black on Both Sides, A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton The Days of Good Looks, by Cheryl Clarke Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History, by E. Patrick Johnson Poetry Black Girl, Call Home, by Jasmine Mans Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson HoodWitch: Poems, by Faylita Hicks Don’t...
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Article 20 mins
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...English settlers established political control over Ireland in the seventeenth century, they created social and legal systems that designated the Irish as ‘uncivilised’ and therefore, in English eyes, as inferior. [An illustration of an octopus with human hands and a human head. The octopus is labelled ‘England’ and its hands are ‘grabbing’ different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...English ‘I am looking for’. Où est/Où sont + le/la/les + noun Où est la gare? La gare, c’est où? Where is the station? Où sont les toilettes? Les toilettes, c’est où? Where are the toilets? Note: C’est où? is another, more informal, way to ask ‘Where is/Where are …?’ Il y a/Est-ce qu’il y a + un/une + noun + près d’ici/par ici? Il y a un...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...English border. Some funding is private – in other words, the people receiving the service pay for themselves – but some services are funded by the NHS or by social services. For people living in Wales, health funding would be from the Hereford and Worcester Clinical Commissioning Group, while people living in neighbouring Powys would be funded by the Powys Teaching...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs