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Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...system in Britain’ in A.T. Scull (ed.) Madhouses, Mad-doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, London: Athlone, pp.201–17. Porter, R. (1999) The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present, London: Fontana. Rice, F.J. (1985) ‘The origin of an organisation of insanity in Scotland’,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...system, extending from just south of the Tropic of Capricorn to the coastal waters of Papua New Guinea, comprises some 3400 individual reefs, including 760 fringing reefs, which range in size from under 1 ha to over 10,000 ha and extend for more than 2000 km off the east coast of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef includes a range of marine environments and formations,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...system. Activity 2 Go to the Weblinks below to find the statements from the UN, the OECD and the ILO about the ethical aspects of business activity. UN ‘Global Compact’ OECD ILO Discussion Given that ‘global corporate citizenship’ remains an elaborate claim, and the uncertainty over exactly what international corporations are citizens of (their status...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...system. Transitions happen to all of us throughout our lives. Some are common to most of us, such as starting school or becoming a parent. Major transitions such as these are like milestones in our lives – we pass through them and look back at them. When we look back at them we remember how we felt at the time and this can affect how we feel about ourselves and our...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...systems of children so that stress is triggered much more easily later on, and for longer periods (Perry et al, 1995). An important study by Christine Heim and her associates (Heim et al., 2000) showed that the stress response of women who had suffered childhood abuse (sexual or physical) did indeed show evidence of having been ‘sensitised’. The women in Heim’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is sleep paralysis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is sleep paralysis?

...system). It is assumed that this paralysis mechanism is in place to stop us acting out our dreams, based on rare cases where the paralysis fails – and patients physically act out the contents of their dreams. A team of Japanese researchers were recently able to induce episodes of sleep paralysis by systematically depriving participants of REM sleep. They found that if...
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Science doesn't know how free divers do it
Health, Sports & Psychology

Science doesn't know how free divers do it

...system. In the very early days of free-diving, physiologists were pretty convinced that people couldn’t go beyond about 30 or 40 metres. They’d drawn their graphs as scientists and they’d worked out what they saw. They worked out what they understood about the human body and the effects of pressure on it and they said: “Well, look, your lungs are going to be...
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Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'
Society, Politics & Law

Windrush generation latest to be stripped of their rights in the name of 'migration control'

...system of immigration detention, which in 2007 became a default for some. Amid the debates about the detention of terror suspects without trial, foreign nationals subject to immigration control measures languished indefinitely in privately run detention centres up and down the UK. They didn’t, and still don’t, have the protections of due process, nor are they being...
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