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Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...education and vaccination. All we need is to educate, educate, educate.” At the Rani Sarala Devi School in Bangalore – the school Madhusudana attended as a child – doctors are busy conducting a free vaccination clinic for children from families with low incomes. “Our children are from the slum area,” says teacher R G Sudha, as more than 400 kids aged 5 to 13...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
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...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...technological fixes to it. MR: No I don’t. I don’t take a pessimistic stance on the technological fixes to it, by no means. I think there are some spectacular technological fixes out there. Cheaper gas, nuclear power in many different forms, molten salt reactors, thorium reactors, small modular reactors. I think we’re going to see spectacular changes in our energy...
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All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...educational setting and the importance of being a member of an academic community The consequences of plagiarism: detecting plagiarism – a look at how educational institutions detect plagiarism The consequences of plagiarism: what happens next – a look at what to do if your work is flagged for plagiarism concerns Myth-busting – uncover some of the common myths about...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 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...
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