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Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...variable in composition, with between one and 13 members. Females normally stay within one group but males move between groups, though the precise degree of promiscuity amongst males referred to in LoM p. 239 is uncertain. Male mammals that mate with several partners often have features that maximise the chances of successfully impregnating any one female. For example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...variability in depth is astonishing. [Described image] Figure 3 Bathymetry along latitude close to 39° N. Sea level is shown as a dashed line. A further technological development in the late 20th century has enabled scientists to derive bathymetry using data from satellites orbiting the Earth at unprecedented resolution. But because of the way the satellites orbit the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...variable nature of settings and the range of people involved means that there is no single route to successful teamwork. Certain constraints may prevent the practice reflecting the values and views of the practitioners. You may be part of a team whose members have different experiences, and there may have been little time to develop shared understandings. Team members may...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Jim Skea - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Jim Skea - Stories of Change

...class, etc. RH: Surely that is a mistake, because there was the report out recently, the Calderón Report, a follow-up to Nick Stern’s report into climate economics, making it really clear that we are only going to solve climate change if we have new forms of development in countries in the South, so that’s exactly where the emphasis needs to go and the great global...
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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...class and cultural assumptions – for example, that eye contact is a good thing to encourage, that families will have warm housing so babies can lie without clothes on, and that there is enough money around to choose particular baby-attracting furnishings for the home. Families who are part of some ethnic groups prefer to wrap their babies close to the body, and some may...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...classes, we will ask people to practise skills at home for 20 minutes each day.’ Following this text there is a bullet-pointed list beginning: ‘We will help you to: use helpful coping skills’, a lengthier bullet-pointed list is implied but is unseen by the viewer] Figure 1 The information sheet above (Figure 1) was created for illustrative purposes in that it was an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...class rather than in addition. So one of the challenges, I think, has been not in itself just moving to an online way of working, but subsequently moving to a hybrid way of working where we are teaching different aspects and different ways. Now, I think in terms of how we take that forward. I think we do value in-person teaching and we value the campus experience. That's...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...class of brain chemicals called brain growth factors may play an important part in this. Such chemicals ‘nurture’ existing neurons and promote neurogenesis. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), one of these brain growth factors, is known to operate in many areas of the brain, and significantly for our purposes, this includes the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs