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Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?
Education & Development

Why do transgender students need safe bathrooms?

...educational institutions - and other public spaces are likely to follow. Alison Gash explains why it's important...Bathroom safety has become the next battle for transgender students on college campuses across the nation. Often referred to as “bathroom desegregation,” calls for safer bathrooms have inspired “shit-ins” at California Polytechnic and San Diego State,...
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Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen
Health, Sports & Psychology

Homeland, Carrie and how mental health is portrayed on-screen

...education of mental health issues. Wilma Townsend from the Centre for Mental Health Services (co-sponsor of the Voice Award) suggested that the show is “a good educational piece for both the general public and people who have a mental illness” because it sends the message that “a person can have a mental illness and still function”. Ellen Leibenluft, from the...
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Ageing Well Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing Well Collection

...educational intervention co-produced with and for the public, was founded on the principles of the innovative model ‘Five Pillars for Ageing Well’ (5P). AWPTS is the result of a public education portfolio, developed over 18 years, and the principles of 5P consolidated in a co-produced intervention for disease prevention. AWPTS is a highly adaptable tool for also...
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Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...education, identity, family and social relationships, social presentation, emotional and behavioural development, self-care skills). They also require assessments to think about each child in the context of their particular family and community. This helps practitioners to assess what appears to be universal to children, to understand individual differences, the...
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Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation
Nature & Environment

Climate change – How awareness is prevented through media sanitation

...educating the public about environmental issues. While Iceland certainly has other practices that are environmentally unsound (for example selling meat products and using refrigeration requiring energy that produces carbon dioxide), their advert ought to be commended for drawing attention to the catastrophe that is unfolding. By squashing the Iceland advert, Clearcast is...
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Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman
History & The Arts

Betty Luckham: celebrating the activism of a pioneering Windrush woman

...education at Carnegie College of Domestic Science, she was very involved in helping to care for relatives of her mother who were in poor health. [This is a map of Guyana] Map showing the location of Guyana At 18, Betty entered the world of work, beginning in the Department of Transport and Harbours before joining the civil service in the Housing and Planning Authority....
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Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis
Education & Development

Bias in ADHD and autism diagnosis

...education settings and these patterns reflect broader structural inequalities. Diagnostic overshadowing and misdiagnosis Another important issue to consider is diagnostic overshadowing where neurodivergent behaviours are misattributed to other conditions such as mental health conditions. For some groups, especially marginalised individuals, neurodivergence is more likely...
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Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...technology concepts, such as encapsulation and inheritance. Building models is an important activity throughout software development whatever approach is taken; models represent different aspects of the system and are built from different points of view. You will learn about the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a (primarily) diagrammatic language, to express models in an...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs