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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
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...system and will introduce you to the ways in which social work practitioners can support people with insecure immigration status, refugees and asylum seekers more effectively. It will highlight some of the realities of asylum and immigration in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland today...This course will present an overview of the policy and law that relates to...
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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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Article 5 mins
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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What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...system for providing care during the daytime, but provision of medical and nursing care is less during evenings, weekends and at night. What should I try to do, say, see? I encourage people entering the last weeks of life to do everything and anything they can do or need to do. This may often include will writing, practical arrangements, seeing loved ones, friends, pets...
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Article 5 mins
Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Looe, Cornwall

...Office for Science https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663885/Future_of_the_sea_-_sea_level_rise.pdf Hansard https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2019-04-23/debates/1AC407C3-56B3-43EE-8CCD-5B179C3AD465/LooeFloodProtectionProject Accessed 20th December 2019 Humphreys, D. (2019) Climate Change: an introduction to a heated debate, in ‘Environmental Policy in ......
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Article 5 mins