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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...resources might you be able to tap into if you’re struggling? If you take away just one thing from this article, I hope it is this: You do not have to do this alone. It can be our default to think, I don’t want to burden anyone, or no one will understand. But experiencing a loss (whether they were close to you or not) can be heavy and carrying it by yourself can make...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...resources to set aside for dedicated language learning tend to outperform those who struggle to make ends meet. Gender: Some studies have found that men in employment were learning faster than stay-at-home housewives. Race: In an Australian study, European-looking students received more interactional opportunities than Asian-looking students; these interactional...
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Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...resources. You will see that both of these dimensions of participation are important in social scientific accounts of participation. Some participation involves deliberate decisions to act together with others, such as when people march in a demonstration, vote in an election or join a group formed to pursue a shared purpose, such as protecting the environment. Other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assistive technologies and online learning
Education & Development

Assistive technologies and online learning

...resources and teaching material can be facilitated is through the use of specialised technologies often called assistive technology. Assistive technology can be defined as: equipment and software that are used to maintain or improve the functional capabilities of a person with a disability [Doyle and Robson, 2002, p. 44]. In thinking about how assistive technology can...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...resources and support: how do you ask people for something? You are fundamentally in ‘the asking business’ – so what are the core processes and skills of asking? ‘Making the ask’ is a phrase which is often used to describe this absolutely vital feature of your work. Your work may involve all sorts of activities. But your success and effectiveness in securing...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...Human Kinetics, pp. 521–57. Faigenbaum, A. (2017) ‘Exercise prescription for muscular fitness’, in Howley, E. T. (ed.) Fitness professional’s handbook (7th edn). Leeds: Human Kinetics, pp. 257–89. Jeffreys, I. (2013) ‘The nature of speed’, in Jeffreys, I. (ed.) Developing speed. Leeds: Human Kinetics, pp. 1–18. Ľubos, G. et al. (2018) ‘Effect of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...humans are causing some part of that warming and that we should probably do something about that, perhaps adapt to that warming; but they disagree with perhaps the rate of change that’s been predicted – they think it’s slower or at the lower end of predictions, and perhaps they don’t really agree with the kind of standard, fairly accepted mitigation options out...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...human beings. They are precisely in the same condition that I am in: they must either live in the lie or see the terrible truth. Why should they live? Why should I love them, why guard, raise and watch them? Is it for the same despair which is in my, or for dullness of perception? Since I love them, I cannot conceal the truth from them, – every step of cognition leads...
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