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Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...et al., 2012), although this estimate could easily be doubled or trebled depending on manufacturing processes and efficiencies...Environmental management and organisations: 11.1.2 Waste production - At the other end of the input–output model, outputs from organisations in the form of waste are also significant. It is not possible to determine global waste outputs from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...et al., 2019). However, for electric vehicles operating on renewable energy, the proportion is likely to be higher. The actual CO2 emissions involved in manufacture will depend on the fuels used. They are likely to be higher for vehicles manufactured in a coal-based country such as China than in the UK. There are also environmental impacts associated with road...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...et al (Judgment) IT-96-23 & IT -96923/1-T (22 February 2001). These are: ‘control of someone’s movement, control of physical environment, psychological control, measures taken to prevent or deter escape, force, threat of force or coercion, duration, assertion of exclusivity, subjection to cruel treatment and abuse, control of sexuality and forced labour’ (para. 77)....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...et al., 2014). Similarly, practice can vary between different types of practitioners. Some psychiatrists who have medical training might take more account of social factors than others. Some community psychiatric nurses focus on monitoring medication and others on more psychological approaches such as specific forms of talking or behavioural therapy. However, while some...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...style productions. She currently produces every aspect of her work, from research, script writing, filming, presenting, and editing, with the primary goal of inspiring her viewers to actively engage with the natural environment around them. In 2012 she established the production company Song Thrush Productions, and has received national and international recognition for...
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Video 30 mins
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...style of telescope which is no longer made. It’s called an equatorial telescope. It has one axis parallel with the axis of the Earth, around which you can rotate the telescope to counteract the rotation of the Earth. And then a second axis which allows the telescope, the dish to move north/south. Dallas Campbell: I mean, this one must have been one of the first. Well...
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Video 30 mins
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...style of the very best London streets at the west end of the town, but, not being of brick, they are greatly superior." SEANDAMER But within fifty years this image had been utterly transfonned. Here is a description of the city in 1849. MICHAEL PERCEY AL-MAXWELL (from "Glasgow Observed", page 86, edited by Simon Berry and Hamish Whyte, pub: /987 Edinburgh: John Donald...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...et al., 2023). In order to explore this further you will examine the experience of women’s sport. Activity 5 Gender discrimination debates in sport Timing: Allow 30 minutes Watch the video below which shows a clip taken from the Channel 5 programme Jeremy Vine, aired in 2019, and complete the questions/tasks that follow. In the video, there are two main arguments made...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs