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How to keep your kidneys healthy
Health, Sports & Psychology

How to keep your kidneys healthy

...Learn more by exploring www.worldkidneyday.org What are the kidneys and what do they do? [A medical model with detachable organs laid out on a pink background] The kidneys are paired bean-shaped organs located in the lower back region. They have several essential functions, including the removal of waste products and fluids from the body through the production of urine....
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Article 5 mins
Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...learn from carers. Their project – Walking the Walk – was born out of the need to improve the experience of distressed and grieving carers as their loved ones were approaching the end of life. The project has been undertaken in over 25 care settings and although each environment is different, they all have an opportunity and a responsibility to consider the needs of...
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Article 5 mins
Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony
History & The Arts

Lady Llanover, Welsh airs and national harmony

...learned them aurally: Maria Jane had collected her songs from ‘an old woman in the Glamorganshire hills now 70 years old, but still having a good voice - she learned them of her mother, who lived to 95 and so traced them back for centuries transmitted orally, never written down.’ [The title page of Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morganwg.]The title page of Ancient...
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Article 5 mins
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...learning in HE art history studies. As with poetry, I will start with initial reactions and move on to a more considered analysis. As a first question, what do you think might be included in the term visual art? For the art historian, visual art is a broad category of study, including traditional fine arts, such as drawing, painting and sculpture, together with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...learn, the more you grow in confidence, and the easier it becomes. Michelle’s work with these charities doesn’t require a heavy time commitment – it’s flexible and gives her the option to choose to engage with things as and when she can. “That’s probably why I chose it!”, she concedes. After all, she does have a four-year-old in the house. Her advice to...
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Article 5 mins
Children and young people’s participation
Education & Development

Children and young people’s participation

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: define the complexity of participation for children and young people compare and contrast different cultural perspectives and experiences of participation reflect critically on personal professional practice and assumptions regarding participation...Children and young people’s participation: 1...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Religion and Violence
History & The Arts

Religion and Violence

...Learning Outcomes After exploring the topics in this article and video, you should be able to: Think critically about claims that religion was (or was not) the cause of a particular act of violence Understand that religious attitudes to violence are complex and varied Being literate about religion and violence In the video below, I discuss the connections between religion...
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Video 5 mins
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...learn about the processes involved in the creation of alcoholic drinks – how they are produced, how the wide range of flavours are generated and how scientists ensure the safety of what we drink. You will also explore the effects of alcohol on our bodies in both the short and long term. Alcohol production is an excellent example of how modern-day science and engineering...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs