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Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...based on different values and beliefs, about how a child’s best interests should be met in relation to the decisions that are made about their lives and futures...This course will introduce you to the law as it applies to social work with children and families in the United Kingdom. You will learn about varying definitions of childhood and family and then explore...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...based on the recommended proportions in this NHS Eat Well Guide, calculate how much a balanced dinner plate will cost (per person) where you live. If you wish, you can choose a specific healthy recipe o choose the ingredients for a healthy meal that you can make already. You may have an old shopping receipt that you can use to help you price your ingredients, or access to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...based on testing and proof rather than the whims of individual Chancellors, judges and lawmakers, many of whom had previously been men of the Church. The new methods, moreover, defined rules incrementally and with seemingly greater transparency. Like cases were treated alike, for example, using the doctrine of precedent, and the recording and reporting of cases was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...based on ground-breaking research (Gopinath et al., 2023a, b) that offers a way forward using ‘relational care’ – a developing approach to supporting older people that is gaining traction as part of a wider movement towards new attitudes, and a re-visioning of adult social care. [Four elderly ladies sat around a table in a communal area] Relational care represents a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...based multimedia and websites begin to understand how to develop personal learning strategies...Watching the weather: 1 Recording the weather: from the surface - For well over a century, formal observations of the prevailing meteorological conditions have been recorded at official weather stations around the globe. In the early days the information was chiefly gathered by...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly considered, and rejected, the possible descent of several species from a common ancestor. The physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles...
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Article 30 mins
White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...de Broglie wavelength, defined by lamda sub dB equals h divided by p Equation label: (1) where h is Planck’s constant ( equals 6.63 multiplication 10 super negative 34 cap j s or 4.14 multiplication 10 super negative 15 eV Hz super negative one ) and p is the particle’s momentum. Now, inside a star, a particle’s kinetic energy can be written as cap e sub k equals...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...based soils were better at coping with drought impacts. But once the drought stress ended, the bacteria-based soils with wheat regained their function quicker. The Loess experience Soil scientists point to ancient Mesopotamia as a tragic example of soil mismanagement: 5,000 years ago, irrigation with salty water and overworked farm plots devastated food production,...
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Article 20 mins