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The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...simple intervention, it is likely to give the player a resource which will ease their transition into their new club. However, there will be athletes who do not have the resources to hand, meaning they will be unable to cope with the transition they are experiencing. For example, take the under 16 netball player who has picked up an ankle injury, she's never been injured...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...code switching be used? What are the benefits of using target language as the main or sole means of communication in the classroom? This section will address some of these considerations and help you to think about your own use of target language with students you teach...Teaching secondary modern foreign languages: 2.1 The benefits of using target language in the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...coding systems have been developed to help government agencies to classify industry groups; others have been developed by financial ratings agencies to help financial investment companies make investment decisions. There is no need to go into detail on any of these classification systems here. What is important, however, is to be aware that the industry a business is in...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...simple demonstration of the same countries, the same measure of inequality, one problem after another. Why don't we control for other factors? Well, we've shown you that GNP per capita doesn't make any difference. And, of course, others, using more sophisticated methods in the literature, have controlled for poverty, and education, and so on. What about causality?...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...simple as tell me more about that can not only clarify the point for you, but for them as well. Give words of encouragement. It sounds obvious, but a go on or I see can really give much needed encouragement and help the person to continue talking. Don’t feel the need to fill the silences in a conversation though as quiet moments are good and give the person time to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...code, but instruction alone is not enough – children need to be able to read, and they need to want to read. Thus, the pedagogies, classroom practices and educator characteristics that support children to become engaged readers have the potential to enhance children’s educational attainment, their social and emotional wellbeing, and to enrich their lives. This session...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...codes that people answer. You might have a question and then six responses that you want people to fit their answer into. So this is quite different. This is much more open-ended. It’s much more a discussion and a conversation with people. So for qualitative research and for in-depth interviews in particular what we use are topic guides and topic guides or discussion...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...simple and inclusive as we accept referrals from all agencies and prioritise on the basis of need rather than source of referral; we offer families a choice of time and dates for appointments, and provide telephone reminders; for families who are likely to struggle to attend we enlist the help of other agencies to support attendance; we see children in non-health settings...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs