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Wales and rugby
Society, Politics & Law

Wales and rugby

...History in the Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales at the University of Glamorgan, about rugby in Wales. He is an enthusiastic scholar and supporter of rugby, as well as being a co-author of the official history of the Welsh Rugby Union, Fields of Praise (University of Wales Press, 1980). Speaking about his research, Gareth explains how different aspects of Welsh...
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The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...family home as a parent or foster parent. This course highlights the importance and variety of the ‘spaces’ that young people frequent and the nature of their relationship with the adults that they meet. As we progress through the course you will have the opportunity to focus on settings with which you are familiar, as well as The Factory Project – just one example...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What is happening in Brazil?
Society, Politics & Law

What is happening in Brazil?

...history, Operation Lava Jato started in 2009 as a probe into a money-laundering scheme involving a local politician from Paraná, a state in the south of Brazil. By 2014, the investigation had uncovered a massive corruption scandal within Brazil’s state oil company, Petrobras, involving politicians from numerous parties and the country’s biggest construction...
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Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them
History & The Arts

Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them

...family mounted a raid to steal the royal remains and bring them back to English-controlled land. What happened next isn’t entirely clear, but for the modern bone hunter the problem isn’t a lack of evidence – it’s too much of it. In the Middle Ages, five different establishments claimed to own Oswald’s head, from Durham in England through to Hildesheim in...
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Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...family friendly employment policies’ that make it easier for both women and men to combine paid work. Family responsibilities not just the care of children, but also increasingly important the care of older people. Mary As you have seen while you have been studying D218, Marshall has identified social policy as the critical mechanism for promoting equal rights; he calls...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...families and a decline in the percentage of larger families over the 30-year period. Other information can be extracted from the table by doing simple calculations. For example, in 1991, the total number of households surveyed was 22.4 million, so the actual number of four-person households surveyed is found by calculating 16% of 22.4 million, which is 3584 000...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...families, develop relationships with people we work with and other professionals, provide clear information and carry out appropriate reporting and recording. From the time we get up to the time we go to sleep, we are communicating. We can have hundreds of moments in a day when we are communicating in many different ways, and with many people. But not everyone is that...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...families. Unlike primary schools, attendance in an early years setting is not compulsory and is a parental choice. Throughout the UK there are over 20,000 primary schools (Statista, no date). Every primary school is different depending on where it is located and who attends. The smallest primary schools may have fewer than 10 pupils, and the largest providing education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs