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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...class at a local further education college. This is what happened when Penny decided that she wanted to join the full-time catering course in the ordinary college: ‘I went to see my tutor about the course but he doesn’t want me to do it. He wants me to go on a course that’s only one day a week. It’s all people from the special school. That’s not what I want to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...classed as either overweight or obese (29 per cent of girls and 31 per cent of boys). 41 per cent of respondents in the national travel survey (including all ages from 2 upwards) made walks of 20 minutes or more at least three times a week and an additional 23 per cent said they did so at least once or twice a week. However, 20 per cent reported that they took walks of at...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...classes such as adverbs or pronouns, you need to improvise if you want to convey any sort of complicated meaning. In the example here, the person with his arm in the air stands for ‘I’. The apple and banana are straightforward enough, and having them next to each other suggests that they’re somehow related in this context (which gets round the absence of an...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...class of DBMS (database management system), not just a relational approach. In the rest of this course we will look at each of these tasks in more detail. [Figure 5] Figure 5 Model of database development...The database development life cycle: 1.3 Requirements gathering - Here we are concerned only with the requirements that relate specifically to the data. Establishing...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...class of drugs, the opiates such as codeine and morphine, act on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Sometimes, the aspirin-like and codeine/morphine-like drugs are combined into one remedy, for example co-codamol and co-proxamol. Local anaesthetics. For the time being, we will concentrate on aspirin, to illustrate the development of drugs and how they are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...class, gender, ethnic group or physical ability, or any other type of discrimination, can cloud your objectivity in recruitment and selection. At worst this may contravene legislation that exists to protect individuals from discrimination. Other prejudices may be generated by particular organisational traditions regarding the ‘type of person’ considered suitable....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...class. But we belong to ecosystems as well, and the adaptability of human beings means that we can be found in all sorts of environments from the poles to the equator. As we have seen, all living things shape – and are shaped by – the physical environments that they inhabit. But no other species has our capacity to alter the world around it, to maximise the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...class teacher, SENCO, any learning support assistants involved, that would take place within the context of a kind of problem solving conversation, what the young person’s strengths are, in relation to that area of difficulty. From there, we would try to look at what types of strategies have been used to get that young person to that point and with what effect. And that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs