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Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...write down the most important details about your son or daughter. You need to leave in an emergency, and you’re leaving them with a complete stranger. What is the most important bits they need to know about your son or daughter now? And write that down. So you’d be surprised how much information you can get in just 5 minutes writing that information. And then spend...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...writing up procedural steps in each case and advising the sheriff on procedure. Other duties include tape recording the proceedings, safeguarding the tapes, and ensuring whenever possible that the court runs smoothly. The court officer is responsible for bringing people in and out of the courtroom. He brings pieces of evidence to witnesses and generally helps the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...writes Alex O'Brien...In 2004, Dr Richard Ellenbogen spent almost 20 hours operating on a 17-year-old girl with a brain tumour. He ended up leaving a big piece of the tumour behind, mistaking it for normal brain tissue. Less than a year after the surgery, the cancer hit back and the young girl died. The week the girl died, Ellenbogen presented the case at his team’s...
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Article 5 mins
Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?
Languages

Can talking two languages keep your brain healthy?

...write at least one of a handful of “super” languages, such as English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish or Arabic, as well. So to be monolingual, as many native English speakers are, is to be in the minority, and perhaps to be missing out. Multilingualism has been shown to have many social, psychological and lifestyle advantages. Moreover, researchers are finding a swathe of...
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Article 10 mins
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...Write Your Obituary’ by Nora Cooper *** “He’s only 17, how can he be dead?” For once, Big Gay Mick wasn’t saying much. “I don’t know. We just seen his stepdad getting out of a taxi at the top of the street and he told us.” There was no getting any other details out of him; he was in shock. Big Gay Mick was not normally lost for words. Stick-thin, with a...
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Article 15 mins
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...writing. Transcript Earth in Vision Project I’m Harry Marshall, I’m the Creative Director at Icon Films, a company I have run in Bristol for 25 years. How I got started I’ve always felt an imposter because my degree was in English; however, I grew up in India and I went to a school in the Western Ghats and my father used to drive me to school through the jungles of...
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Video 30 mins
Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...Writing Quarterly 34(3): 203–217. Ryan, R. M. and Deci, E. L. (2000) Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being., The American Psychologist, 55(1): 68–78. Schaffner, E., Schiefele, U. and Ulferts, H. (2013) Reading Amount as a Mediator of the Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reading Motivation on...
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Article 5 mins
What are waves?
Science, Maths & Technology

What are waves?

...writing this first law would be to say that an object does not accelerate unless it is acted on by an unbalanced force, or equivalently, if an object is acted on by an unbalanced force it will accelerate. When the water level is at its lowest point and the forces are most out of balance, in which direction is the force acting to restore the water surface to its mean...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs