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Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...phrases, or draw images, that you associate with ‘law’. Try to focus on what law means to you personally. (You may want to return to what you have written later on in the course and reflect on whether your thoughts have changed.) Once you have compiled a list, see if you can separate your observations into positive and negative attributes. For example, if you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...types of plankton). These plants are eaten by animals, which are eaten by other animals, and so on. But the sun is not the only source of energy involved in the workings of this particular ecosystem: the tides that sweep across the pool are driven up and down the beach by the gravitational pull of the moon. Activity 1 Using your knowledge of rock pools, pick out a few of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...de-visite, 1870s] © National Portrait Gallery, London Figure 9 Mark Twain, by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s Another writer, Charlotte Brontë, damned my favourite with faint praise: ‘I have likewise read one of Miss Austen’s works Emma – read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...phrase we heard often, “Yang penting kita aman dan senang”, which approximates to “What matters is that we’re all safe and happy” (Village Bapak (elected village leader), Pulau Karikatang, 22/08/12). Indeed, the islanders thought we were strange because our expedition team sometimes camped on uninhabited islands or chose to camp on beaches more secluded than the...
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Video 15 mins
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...phrase that carried us through consultation process. And the concept resulted in fifty-two cast stainless steel ingots, located in this particular special place in Hyde Park, each of these ingots representing a life lost. Now these stainless steel castings are arranged into four clusters, with the number of each life lost at each place forming the numbers of the clusters....
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Article 15 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The Hindoos give the world an elephant to support it, but they make the elephant stand upon a tortoise. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless...
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Article 5 mins
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...type industries, like pharmaceuticals. Creative industries, which remain globally strong relative to most other countries. Our universities which are a great service export, intellectual property led are a huge export industry for the UK, and if you want to feel proud of an export, you know, we export more foreign doctors than the Germans do. They export cars, we do...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding dyslexia Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...types of dyslexia: acquired dyslexia and developmental dyslexia. Acquired dyslexia, called ‘alexia’, is caused by trauma or brain pathologies like stroke, resulting in partial or complete reading inability. Developmental dyslexia, often hereditary and present at birth, is typically what people refer to today. The definition of dyslexia has evolved since the 1880s and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs