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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Geological Society and the Society...
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Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...education than the other sample (six years or less for mothers in the first sample, and seven years or more for those in the other sample). Table 1.4 Family size: mothers married aged 15–19 Mother educated for six years or less 14 13 4 14 10 2 13 5 0 0 13 3 9 2 10 11 13 5 14 Mother educated for seven years or more 0 4 0 2 3 3 0 4 7 1 9 4 3 2 3 2 16 6 0 13 6 6 5 9 10 5 4...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...Education...Continuity and learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify specific dimensions of workplace learning understand the concept of biographical learning plan and carry out an informal interview about lifelong learning...Continuity and learning: 1 Workplace learning - Theories of workplace learning draw on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...technological innovation, urbanisation, science and globalisation were the hallmarks of modernity in a period that is characterised as ‘enlightenment’, as the growth of rationality and – above all – as ‘progress’. However, in recognising climate and ecological collapse, people are beginning to realise what was lost during this momentous period of human...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...technology. The internet has only been in widespread use by the general public for a few decades (a ‘start date’ could be considered to be the launch of the World Wide Web on the 6 August 1991), but online activity has already become ubiquitous in the developed world and is becoming progressively more common in much of the developing world as well (Naughton, 2016)....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...technology to improve her quality of life, such as a large keyboard or talking telephone, books in large print or Braille. Assistive technology is covered in Section 4 of this course; see Topic 2, ‘Promoting independence’...Looking after yourself: 4.1 Providing the right kind of support - People receiving care should have a care plan that has been written by them (if...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...Education (2020) states that ‘The wellbeing of children and young people is central to Government policy and is central to achieving the aims of the Department for Education’. [Two young children studying at a table. A teacher is helping one of the children.] ‘Recent reports have shown that the wellbeing of children in the UK, and England specifically, remains...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Developing reading skills in relation to the Social Sciences

...education but it's on a quite familiar issue of comprehensives versus selective education. But the point of this is not really to add to the substance of that chapter but to develop your way of tackling texts like this. So, as I said, I would start off by thinking about the context. And getting a feel for what kind of text it is. What's its style? Well, to me this is a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr