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The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...English ‘theatre’), a term which expresses their responsibility to watch the festival events on behalf of their community. As well as witnessing the festival, theoroi liaised with local leaders, represented their state in the official procession and sacrifice, and carried out a further sacrifice on behalf of their community. They also looked after the interests of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...English riots of 2011 and reflect on whether the comparison at stake is between types of behaviour or types of people. ‘An excessive sense of entitlement’ was what the mayor of London ascribed to those looting their way across our sceptred isle – but he could have been referring to himself. In the mid-to-late 80s, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson – not to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...English NHS hospitals have been reported to the Health Protection Agency since April 2007 via a web-based Surveillance Data Sheet. So-called ‘lab returns’ on the number of positive blood cultures (MRSA bacteraemia), and CDI-infected stool samples, are collected from each location. Patients are now routinely screened for nasal carriage of MRSA before and at admission...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...English Dictionary, 1983, p. 938). Leach and Moon (2008, p. 6) defined pedagogy as ‘a dynamic process informed by theories, beliefs and dialogue but only realised in the daily interactions of learners and teachers and real settings’. Pedagogy is essentially, therefore, what goes on in the classroom, underpinned by a complex mixture of the values, beliefs and past...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...everyday use have been subject to innovation by development. You can see the results in the motor industry, in aeroplanes, trains, mobile phones, computers, fridges, cookers, plastics, household implements … it's more difficult to think of something that hasn't been subject to innovation by development! Box 2 Innovation by development – an example explores a typical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...Everyday Life, Garden City, NY, Doubleday. Goffman, E. (1969) Strategic Interaction, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press. Jones, R. L. (2006) ‘Dilemmas, maintaining “face”, and paranoia: an average coaching life’, Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 1012–1021. Kyndt, T. and Rowell, S. (2012) Achieving Excellence in High Performance Sport: The...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...English as the Mechanism of the Heavens (1831) by the Scottish mathematician, Mary Somerville. This translation was highly acclaimed and established Somerville’s reputation as a mathematician at a time when very few women had the opportunity to study mathematics. [This is a portrait of the 19th century polymath Mary Somerville.] Figure 7 Mary Somerville (1780–1872)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...English Language provision. They still have the right to health services. If they meet the threshold for vulnerability, not caused by destitution, then they have right to social care as well. Children have the same rights as everybody else in Scotland, so preschool, school, all the grants that other kids get, and the other big difference with England is legal aid, so...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs