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Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and socialising. He continued...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...education in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. In England and Wales in 2011, the Tamil speaking-population was said to be 100 689 (Gopal and Matras, 2013) while Dissanayake some years earlier (2008) quoted a community estimate of 150 000. The majority of Tamils are Hindus, with a smaller proportion being Christians and Muslims. Tamils tend to live in extended families,...
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...education, in your leisure-time activities, or in your own home. Are all of these changes things that you have welcomed? Or are there areas where you would have preferred things to stay the same? AnswerMy responses I'm aware of how different things are for my children. For example, when they are doing homework they will regularly search for information on the internet,...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...education, Locke and colleagues consider important aspects of diagnosis and management of GAD and PD in adults using the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria (discussed in Section 3.3) which are of wider, global relevance. The link to the article is provided in the References section should you wish to read further on this topic, beyond this course. The DSM-5 criteria for GAD and PD...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...education, literature, history, psychology, and law. It was a little bit like an Open University course in a way. And you had to do a little project. In psychology she did it. And I've got her handwriting here because it's from the archives of The Open University. And it's called 'An Experiment in Prejudices.' And what she did was to ask - because she was also studying to...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...education and more-- an information campaign about the pros of the capacity act and how to comply with it. There's likely to be big changes in the next 10 years to mental health and mental capacity legislation. This is being driven by two main forces. The first is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. This requires law to pay far more...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...educational training we did in our early lives have become obsolete within 20 or 30 years, because of the pace of change. And so I think career resilience in its broadest term is recognition of the need that we all have for lifelong learning, for agility and flexibility, as we move from one role to another, from one organisation to another, and potentially from one career...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...Education for action: Preparing youth for participatory democracy’, ann an R. Hayduk, & K. Mattson (Eds.), Democracy’s moment: Reforming the American political system for the 21st Century. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: pp. 91–107. Westheimer, J., & Kahne, J. (2004) ‘What kind of citizen?: the politics of educating for democracy’, American...