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Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...interacts with a specific molecular site called an alpha receptor. This interaction results in contraction of the smooth muscle in the vessel wall, and hence constriction of the blood vessel itself. Substances like noradrenaline that bring about biochemical and pharmacological changes are called agonists. In hypertension, however, control is abnormal and blood pressure is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...Social, which is the realm of everyday interaction – in the workplace, but also within families and neighbourhoods. Culture, which can mean through the arts, but also through traditions. Political, which can mean through the activity of political parties and activist groups, but also informally and more routinely, as people persuade one another of a certain view of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...social care. It enables us to build relationships with the people we care for and their families, develop relationships with people we work with and other professionals, provide clear information and carry out appropriate reporting and recording. From the time we get up to the time we go to sleep, we are communicating. We can have hundreds of moments in a day when we are...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping the consequences of our own choices (living in places we ourselves have chosen, doing jobs that we were drawn to, surrounded by people like us whom we have sought out). Thus, personality differences that might have been very slight at birth become dramatic in later adulthood....
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Article 10 mins
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...social and cultural contexts. The growing emphasis on leadership is based on the premise that effective leadership will mean improved outcomes for children’s care, learning and development. We take the view that leadership is the concern of all practitioners and not the exclusive domain of one individual, the designated leader. Stacey (2009) notes that while good...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...social cohesion and productive problem-solving for shared challenges understand what can be done to support the provision of good-quality Religious Education teaching in schools...An education in Religion and Worldviews: 1 What is going on? Why is it important? - [A photograph of a teacher teaching a group of students.] Did you know that all children in England should be...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
World-Changing Women: Emily Davies
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Emily Davies

...social grounds. Some even believed that women’s bodies were so physically ill-suited to studying that it posed a risk to their mental and physical well-being. Excessive mental activity in women, especially during menstruation, was believed to cause acute weakness and weight loss, a condition described as ‘anorexia scolastica’. Emily Davies was born on 22 April 1830,...
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Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on the Glasgow City Council equal pay dispute

...Social Sciences courses. Background[Lyn-Marie O'Hara outside the Unison offices in Glasgow.]Lyn-Marie outside the Unison Glasgow City branch office, Bell Street, Glasgow, September 2022Lyn-Marie O’Hara was one of the key figures in the long campaign by Unison members at Glasgow City Council for equal pay. As Mags McCarthy indicates in her article on the equal pay...
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