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Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...careful. Figure 11 Peer-to-peer lending and crowdfunding have emerged in recent years This market has grown because beleaguered savers who have seen returns on their accounts fall to miserly levels in recent years, and to levels below the rate of price inflation, are being increasingly tempted by peer-to-peer (P2P) lending. However, it must be stressed that these are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...adults (often professional musicians and musicians working in the community) take place in venues such as youth clubs. It is important to note that these are not unstructured or unplanned sessions – the difference lies in the way the music educators who lead them tend to come to the session not with fixed ideas about what is to be learned and how learning will be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A Caster Semenya reading list

...careful and need to be inclusive. If we set a threshold for [naturally occurring] testosterone it’s problematic because there isn’t a threshold for men and in that sense it’s discriminatory and unfair.’ Read at The International Bar Assocation: Suspended hyperandrogenism regulations under the spotlight at Rio Olympics Writing for Mother Jones, Samantha Michaels...
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Video 10 mins
Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland
Society, Politics & Law

Sex workers’ labour struggles in Scotland

...care to sex work, is not taken seriously enough.” Finally, when asked about the GMB’s opinion on the Nordic Model, Rhea’s answer echoed parts of both Carmen and Matilda’s statements : “GMB does not support the Nordic Model policy. Based on feedback from workers, this policy only stands to further criminalise the work and marginalise the workers. GMB Union...
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Article 10 mins
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...care or a tendency to display risky behaviours in public A sense of hopelessness or feeling overwhelmed An individual who displays more than one could lead the observer to suspect that the pilot may be at risk of deteriorating mental health (SkyBrary). Emotional – Pilots who are struggling with their mental health may seem irritable and sensitive to criticism, they may...
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Article 5 mins
W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times
Society, Politics & Law

W.E.B. Du Bois – A Man for All Times

...careful and reasoned statement concerning the evident facts and started down to the Atlanta Constitution office, carrying in my pocket a letter of introduction to Joel Chandler Harris [journalist and (white) author of hugely popular stories drawn from African American culture]. I did not get there. On the way news met me: Sam Hose had been lynched, and they said that his...
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Article 10 mins
The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world
Society, Politics & Law

The Cyber Armour: A podcast which champions voices and safety of women and girls in the digital world

...care across a number of contexts including software engineering. This podcast episode discusses responsible software engineering and why it is important. Further we explore the idea of infrastructural justice, what this means in practice and how it might help to address online harms experienced by women. The podcast discusses what needs to be done in practice to ensure...
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Audio 30 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...care, education, and defence? Whether we should generate electricity using nuclear power, solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini political...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs