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Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...families were headed up by nurses (Delamothe,1988). Remembering the nurses strike of 1988 The third dispute of 1988 occurred in December and was solely a nurse’s dispute on the issue of pay after nurses were promised significant pay rises but once again found that the small print of the regrading exercise would mean that the headline figures would apply to a limited...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...family, teachers and peers. This deep engagement in the processes of making, sharing and developing meaning through reading and discussion, is intrinsically motivating, and affords many benefits to young people who choose to read for pleasure regularly in their own time. It is to the myriad benefits associated with reading for pleasure which this review now turns. To...
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Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...family members and friends need and want your time, interest, favours and affection. In the give and take of life with family and friends, it’s often hard to know who is the customer and who is the supplier. In any productive relationship, personal or business, benefits and value are exchanged in both directions. Use the text box below to list up to five of your most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...family and work colleagues largely determines the quality of these relationships. In practice the quality of people's lives is dominated by the implicit models they hold of those with whom they interact most regularly – and they will have hoards of evidence to persuade you that their models of these people are correct. Box 3 An example from management A company...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Kenya, a group of vervet monkeys (Figure 1) is foraging on the ground near a large baobab tree. A young male on the periphery of the group suddenly stands on his hind legs and gives a loud triple barking sound. The other monkeys have no doubt what this means: a snake is in the vicinity. The monkeys group together, scouring the grass for the location of the predator. [Figure 1] Copyright © Tony Camacho/Science Photo Library ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dawn Parsonage-Kent - Earth in Vision

...family sitting down watching the television in the lounge, completely focussing on it, attention to view, so you’d sit down and watch your favourite programmes with the family. That changed a little bit over time, multi televisions in the home, so children started watching their own televisions, adults in the living room, for instance. And then things started changing...
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The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...families, so technology's not gonna help that. So, I think in the long term yes it w it can help prevent, it can help detect, does help detect, it will never eradicate crime but it may reduce it in certain areas to acceptable levels. JOHN. Bob Pattison also acknowledges that despite the benefits for policing and control of some crime, the wider implications of the new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...family, and to own property. Articles 18 and 19 enjoin the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and to freedom of opinion and expression. Articles 20 and 21 establish a right to peaceful assembly, and the right to take part in the government of his [sic] country, such that the ‘will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government’....
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs