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Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...money if they have five children all wanting to participate in different activities, as opposed to those parents who can invest all their time and money in one child. Studies in developed nations generally indicate that elite athletes are more likely to come from middle- or upper-class families (Fraser-Thomas and Côté, 2006). Activity 4 uses a case study to which we can...
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...money on fuel. Design: An indicator provides a way to tell other people that we are turning. An accelerator allows us to go faster. Activity 7 Optional reading Even an activity as simple as walking can be regulated by things. Just putting up a sign saying ‘do not walk here’ has the effect of regulating and ordering our walking behaviour. The following short article,...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...Money. And I can’t think of many other places in the known universe where you could do something of that scale. Including readings, the number of hours we do – drama readings – is somewhere in excess of 400 a year, or 400 hours of originations is a lot of drama. I think the interesting shift from being a producer, which is was before I did this job, on being a...
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...business of how we think about ourselves and our institutions: Lobster pots are designed to catch lobsters. A man entering a lobster pot would become suspicious of the narrowing tunnel, he would shrink from the drop at the end: and if he fell in, he would recognise the entrance as a possible exit and climb out again – even if he were the shape of a lobster. A trap is a...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...busy, noisy, congested, tangled – but in a positive sense. […] Busyness is clearly an important element in Javanese gamelan music, with some instruments delegated the responsibility of filling in the texture so that there is constant sound. The sparse or slow-playing of some instruments is always balanced by the busy activity of [these instalments]. Javanese textiles,...
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...business, legislation and concordats. Handling correspondence under devolution: the general principles for the handling by UK government departments of correspondence from members of the devolved legislatures. Guidance on the handling of inter-ministerial and inter-departmental correspondence is available in devolution guidance note 6. Role of the Secretary of State for...
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...money to hand in to the police, and too difficult to divide up equally. A happy solution is to donate it to charity and, as your walk home takes you past a charity shop, the task is entrusted to you. On the way home you stand outside the charity shop. Next to it is the off-licence. You are in an agony of indecision as to whether to do as you said you would, or spend the...
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...business to his rivals because telephone operators, responsible for the manual connection of call requests, were unfairly diverting calls from the newly bereaved to his competitors. Strowger developed switching systems that led to the introduction of the first automated telephone exchanges in 1897. This enabled users to make their own connections using rotary dialling to...
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs