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The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...Researchers from China (Xamxidin et al, 2025) looked at the microorganisms living in Lake Barkol, a highly salty lake, by extracting the DNA from water and sediment samples. The research identified more than 300 different bacteria and archaea. Archaea are a group of single‑celled organisms similar to bacteria, and they often live in extreme environments with very salty,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...research. Caring within a family will be considered through reading about Sheila who cares for her husband and son. Finally, the course will look at the plight of young carers, often hidden from view, and losing part of their childhood due to their caring responsibilities...How can families support healthy living and cope with illness? This free course, Exploring family...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...research papers. “As a father, I had one thing to do and I failed,” he says, his voice faltering for the first time. “My son was dying in front of me and I couldn’t see it, despite my education, despite my devotion as a father… So you see this is coming from an incredible sense of guilt. I suppose what I’m trying to do is save my boy in retrospect. I stood...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...research shows that ‘teaching to the test’ is not the best way to allow students to attain well, and is certainly not the best way to enable students to be able and willing to continue to study mathematics, or to empower them to use mathematics in their day-to-day lives and careers. Formative assessment allows students to understand how they are progressing in their...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...research and thinking about food, including how policies tackling obesity are framed, it draws across work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments that currently fail children and their health. The following video...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing healthcare improvement
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing healthcare improvement

...researchers, payers, planners and educators – to make the changes that will lead to better patient outcomes (health), better system performance (care) and better professional development (learning…) (Batalden & Davidoff, 2007, p.2) Activity 1 This definition of quality improvement identifies three areas that may result in positive change after an improvement...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...research or undertake it in-house if the organisation has the necessary resources and skills. It is then possible to compare the internal information about product sales with the external data about the market to get a sense of relative position (either in unit sales or sales revenue). Financial stability may be a concern if the potential combined competitor is likely to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?

...Research evidence indicates that during the 20th century the stature and weight of rugby union players increased significantly, with body mass increases far exceeding those in the general population of young males during the same timeframe. Since the game turned professional in 1995 this trend has continued. Evidence from 2002- 2011 shows that the average height and...
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