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Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...care where you came from or what you look like, we care about what kind of person you are. We want people to know that our community is always willing to extend a hand in friendship to those who want to be a part of it.” These narrative ‘frames’ appeal to different instincts and may appeal to different groups, but importantly they all maintain a link to core values...
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Article 15 mins
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...adults and children who engage online. Please find links to two useful guides that give tips on to stay safe online: Cybercrime and online safety developed by West Yorkshire police 355355 Supporting your child’s wellbeing by the NSPCC 356356 This free course is an adapted extract from the Open University course DD802 Investigating forensic psychology357357. Explore the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...adults allowed to vote? Was the economy more rural than industrial? Was the country at war? Who had the most power, the Prime Minister or the monarch? Did British people own slaves? Were criminals more likely to be flogged, transported, executed or sent to prison? Could most people read or write? Discussion Keep these notes about your impressions of life in 1800. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...adults are overweight or obese. For many of them, the cure is diet: one in three are attempting to lose weight in this way at any given moment. Yet there is ample evidence that diets rarely lead to sustained weight loss. These are expensive failures. This inability to curb the extraordinary prevalence of obesity costs the United States more than $147 billion in...
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Video 5 mins
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...adult children. [A tamil family] Figure 3 Three generations of a Tamil family – the women are wearing saris (saylay, in Tamil), while the patriarch is wearing a vertti, and the young girl in the front is wearing a pavaadai. Activity 1 Select the answer for Question 1a here True or false. Tamil is an official language only in India. True False a. True b. False The...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Doug Allan - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Doug Allan - Earth in Vision

...careful about who… About tweets, for example, going out while you’re filming, because within any big series there will be two or three really good stories that they want to keep back, so that the press have got new stories to talk about when they launch the programme, and the last thing they want is a picture or a tweet going out at the time, which then undermines the...
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Video 35 mins
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...careful study and observation of the physical or material objects generated by those societies. The source material for study is exceptionally wide, including not just human-made artefacts but also natural objects and even preserved body parts (as you saw in the film ‘Encountering a body’). Some specialists in the field of material culture have made bold claims for...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...care and love, rather than hate and mistrust...Week 1: The meaning and value of leadership: 1.6 Leadership involves staying engaged and seeing a task through to the end - You need to engage in and stay with leadership practice over time. This is mostly because power has a way of biding its time until the fuss goes away, and then going back to business as usual. Many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs