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Festival of Psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Festival of Psychology

...community and peers following migration to a new country. There has been considerable debate within the field of child language brokering about whether the practice poses a risk to children’s wellbeing and impacts negatively on parent-child relationships. Child language brokering as an activity takes place across a wide variety of contexts such as banks, retail,...
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Video 2 hrs
Eid al-Fitr
History & The Arts

Eid al-Fitr

...community, and those who have moved away for work may return home to their families; nowadays people may also go away on holiday at this time. It begins when the new crescent moon is first seen. Though usually referred to as the ‘lesser Eid’, the Eid al-Fitr often has often been more prominent than the Eid al-Adha because of the demands of the Ramadan fast and ‘the...
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Article 5 mins
Dance skills
Education & Development

Dance skills

...communicates ideas through movement and is an expressive art form. Students need to learn how to use their body in a safe and healthy way, whilst developing a wide-ranging movement vocabulary. The use of different dance techniques can be an effective way of building vocabulary and developing different kinds of skills and abilities. Technical dance skills can form the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...communities located next to rivers or coastlines. There are six common types of flooding (Flood Guidance, 2009), some of which can even affect hill-top locations. Explore the types of flooding by scrolling/rolling over/clicking on the images in Figure 2. Figure 2 Types of flooding Activity 1 Is flooding a problem? Timing: Allow 10 minutes for this activity Thinking about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...communication. All behaviour however we behave, and we are all capable of behaving in a challenging way. I have a son that doesn’t use words to communicate. He communicates with gesture, with sound, with his behaviour, and how he behaves and how he does things, and it’s how we know what he’s saying. So his behaviour over the years felt like he was very close to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...Community. Boston: Ginn & Company...Session 1: Children or criminals?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Rod Earle. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...communications system to its users. For the engineers who set it up and maintain it, it is a technical system (that is linked to an employment system – a job – in their view). Similarly someone who designs telephone switches considers each switch as a system in its own right – a switch can record usage data as well as route your calls. As Example 3 shows, there is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...communication with colleagues and with other organisations. Staff reported that their teamwork and communication improved. 3. THE STAFF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT/LEARNING POSITIVE CHANGES NEGATIVE CHANGES There was a 9 per cent reduction in hospital costs at some sites. Emergency admissions increased. There was no overall cost saving to introducing the pilots...Introducing...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs