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Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...Education and Work, 29(8), pp. 877-901...Session 1: Employability and you: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Steph Doehler. It was first published in March 2024. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The...
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...education and mean ‘schoolboy’ and ‘schoolgirl’. Word ‘nurse’ in Ukrainian literally means ‘medical sister’ (medsestra) or ‘medical brother’ (medbrat). Since nail technicians in Ukraine are women (at least I have never seen a male nail technician there), word manikiurnytsia is used in female form, while budivelnyk (‘builder’) is normally used in...
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...educational system. What I was taught seems to be quite different from what is expected here. I feel I'm putting myself up just to be shot down. I'm really exposing my weaknesses. I enjoy writing, but there seems to be a mystique to this kind of ‘academic’ writing that I can't fathom. I love writing essays but this course requires reports, and I feel frustrated...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...educators – they became passive consumers of medical services. At the same time, the medical profession no longer simply dealt with the sick, but increasingly took a role in monitoring the lifestyle and behaviour of healthy people. As a result, people became increasingly dependent on medical practitioners to guide their lives. In this course, I explore these issues...
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...Education Minister. The party also served as a junior coalition partner to Labour between 2001 and 2003. Political heartlands: The party has benefited from the list system, gaining enough votes in most constituencies to win a regional seat. Context: The party describe themselves as having the deepest roots of any Welsh political party with liberalism in Wales stretching...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...educational charities and so on, but I think there’s a very strong argument for giving greater access to it. Opening BBC natural history archive online – the benefits I hope if we opened up our archive online it would be very good news for educators, it would be very good news for conservation charities who are constantly struggling to find the quality of images that...
Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...technology are typically well educated with higher disposable income, which can be read as a prediction of which socio-economic groups might adopt new approaches first. Rogers (1962) also suggested you think of the phases of adoption in terms of how to move consumers along the curve from Awareness through Persuasion, to Trialling, then Adoption and Consolidation. Activity...
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...education and processes of inclusion and exclusion. Ann Phoenix suggests that, in relation to the TV programme, ‘the children were engaging as active citizens’. How does she argue for the proposition and what evidence does she cite from the programme? Mary McLeod and Ann Phoenix have different views on ‘children as citizens’. Can you identify each of these...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr