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Would you recognise county lines exploitation?
Society, Politics & Law

Would you recognise county lines exploitation?

...children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs.’ (National Crime Agency (2021) County Lines). Often those groomed or coerced by county lines gangs do not realise that this is what is happening to them until it is too late, by which time the law is unlikely to provide them with any defence if they are charged with a criminal offence connected to their...
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Darwin's world-wide web
Science, Maths & Technology

Darwin's world-wide web

...it has vastly expanded, hoping to draw in a wide range of audiences, both young and old. Darwin the collaborator The letters show that Darwin was a very generous correspondent, and in particular how positive he was to women scientists. Darwin the mentor and family man Darwin was very open minded and supportive, both of students whom he didn't know and of his own children....
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Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...children, for example), while the state may have a general duty to protect and to aid. Therefore, universal rights do not presuppose universal duties; there can be a division of labour on the side of duties. For instance, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises that ‘it is governments that have the overarching duty to ensure a...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...centre) and Empress Taitu (bottom left) leading their troops to victory against the Italian army. You can find out more about this history in Session 3. Image: British Museum....Introduction: Introduction - How did empires begin? How were they experienced and maintained? How did they end and what legacies have they left behind? This course will help you to answer these...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...children in different parts of Scotland what they thought of other nations. She gave a list of the nations of the world, and she got them to say what they thought. And some of them didn't like the Chinese. Some didn't like the Russians. Some didn't like the Germans. Some didn't like the Japanese. But it was quite varied. And she said that was an experiment in prejudices....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...Research Group, 2010)...Understanding depression and anxiety: 1.1 What do we mean by stress? - We tend to think of ‘stress’ as a state of demand that is likely to stretch us to breaking point, and hence as a bad thing, to be avoided. An image of stress this brings to mind is pulling on a chain with increasing force: sooner or later the chain will break at the weakest...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Business Bursts: Marketing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Business Bursts: Marketing

...children you have, the age of your children, maybe your household income, some of your hobbies and interests, those sorts of things. So you have to give some of that information to the supermarket in return for the benefits. So we’ve moved from that mass marketing approach to a much more targeted individualised approach where we segment markets into groups of customers...
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Melt casting
Science, Maths & Technology

Melt casting

...centre toggles, bolts or small hydraulic units. Cycle times are dictated by freeze-off behaviour of polymer, as in injection moulding. Automation can be introduced by arranging moulds on a shuttle table or carousel. Once gate has frozen, extruder can be removed from mould and next mould indexed round. Moulds generally vented or evacuated to avoid back-pressure on the...
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