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Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...money to buy uniform will be insufficient to encourage the young person to take up the grammar school place. Similarly, if ‘going to Oxbridge’ is not an assumed route in the context in which someone has grown up, s/he will not think about doing it even if s/he has the necessary qualifications. The social structures need changing if behaviours are to change....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...money-based, highly competitive economy broke the old social bonds between upper and lower classes that had helped poorer families to care for a mentally disordered person. In cities, where housing costs were high, families were unable to support an unproductive member, or to care for them, especially as their wages rose and fell dramatically during periods of boom and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...money by extracting fees from prisoners – for necessities such as food and bedding, and even for release. [This is a black and white illustration of a lone figure walking along a city street. Looming above him in the right foreground is a high stone-built structure, with few windows and a doorway at pavement level. In the background is a timber-framed building that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...busy, as everybody is, that I will probably keep putting stuff off. And I need somebody, basically, who's going to keep me in check or challenge me to be better and be quite straightforward with that. So I kind of gravitated to Mark. And as it turned out, I think I was the only one that selected him, because I could see a guy that wasn't going to you know wrap me up in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...business and science. It is precisely because of statistics such as these that some people feel the language has developed in such a way that, conceptually, it is now a quite different entity from its pre-globalised incarnation. We need to be a bit careful, however, when we make assertions about English using figures like these. While statements of this sort may seem...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...busy lives, and to reconsider their personal beliefs and actions that can affect their children’s lives. Listening to children in order to better understand their perspectives on play and playing, the researchers urge, is an essential dimension of respecting children’s human rights to be heard and for their opinions to be respected (United Nations, 1989). The Italian...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...busy lives which conflicts with their study plans, and everyone suffers from the occasional lapse in motivation, even when they are not busy. Students often find that they will use several different approaches to time management, depending on other demands and their experience of what works best. There are many resources and tools available on the internet, and a number...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...money from the credulous – as in the case of the chess automata, or the talking heads. Another intention must surely have been to show off the skill and craftsmanship of the maker and thus to win aristocratic favour – Vaucanson's work is the obvious example of this. But I think we can also see two other clear purposes. Firstly, humanity has always seen the potential...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs