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Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...Business Images/Dreamstime.com Section 1 image: © David Prado Perucha/ Shutterstock Section 4 image: © Prazis Images / Shutterstock Audio-visual Video 1: Images: Girl with Welsh flag, Young girl in gold hijab, Woman in karate suit, Girl with hand covering half her face, Young Migrant and Welsh group sitting on fence, Young Migrant and Welsh group in a church, Woman...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...businesses and schools may benefit from the increased demand for their services. There are many dimensions to such change, no matter where it occurs. [Described image] Figure 1: Aerial view of housing in Ireland: This is an example of a planned development although many of its side-effects may be unplanned. Such an interplay between planned and unplanned outcomes is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...business for those whose business it is: The climate is harsh and the weather variable, the soils are generally poor and surface water is scarce, and markets are often very remote and essentially uncertain […] By the beginning of the 1970s, … the level of anxiety about agricultural practices, and the paradigm that they reflected, were beginning to surface …...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...business letters, they lose their ‘ghosts’ – the rich aura that has grown about them from the start, and grows infinitesimally richer every time they are spoken. They lose more; they lose their ‘kernel’, the sheer sensuous relish of utterance… We are in danger of contenting ourselves with husks. For example, nowadays we say ‘it rains’. The old Orkneymen...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...businesses, in the community, in people’s homes, in call centres such as 111, in Government and in education. Section 2 of this course explores these different work roles a little further. Select the answer for Question 1b here In the UK, what percentage of nurses are men? Do you think it is around: 5% 10% 20% 25% a. 5% b. 10% c. 20% d. 25% The correct answer is b....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...business. It's the leading disability worldwide, and people die of it every day. One of the people I talked to when I was trying to understand this was a beloved friend who I had known for many years, and who had had a psychotic episode in her freshman year of college and then plummeted into a horrific depression. She had bipolar illness, or manic depression, as it was...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...money. So purple is fighting and red is giving money away, and green is profiteering. And what you can see straight away is you start to have a different relationship to the numbers. You can literally see them. But more importantly, you start to see patterns and connections between numbers that would otherwise be scattered across multiple news reports. Let me point out...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...money. And this has led to our resources in the local area being quite stretched and limited. And whether that be third sector agencies, maybe not receiving funding the following year, or being limited in what they're able to provide. SPEAKER 3 At the moment, I'm working a caring community team, and I think that the amount of the waiting lists-- the size of the waiting...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs