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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...class discussion can be held, guided by questions such as: Who emigrated from Ireland? Who stayed? Analyse this differentiation. For what reasons did the brothers emigrate? How did migration benefit BOTH the place of origin and the place of destination of the migrant? Who returned? Why? There is a need to open out the discussion. For homework it would be fun – and very...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...class at a local further education college. This is what happened when Penny decided that she wanted to join the full-time catering course in the ordinary college: ‘I went to see my tutor about the course but he doesn’t want me to do it. He wants me to go on a course that’s only one day a week. It’s all people from the special school. That’s not what I want to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...classes such as adverbs or pronouns, you need to improvise if you want to convey any sort of complicated meaning. In the example here, the person with his arm in the air stands for ‘I’. The apple and banana are straightforward enough, and having them next to each other suggests that they’re somehow related in this context (which gets round the absence of an...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...class of drugs, the opiates such as codeine and morphine, act on the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Sometimes, the aspirin-like and codeine/morphine-like drugs are combined into one remedy, for example co-codamol and co-proxamol. Local anaesthetics. For the time being, we will concentrate on aspirin, to illustrate the development of drugs and how they are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...class, gender, ethnic group or physical ability, or any other type of discrimination, can cloud your objectivity in recruitment and selection. At worst this may contravene legislation that exists to protect individuals from discrimination. Other prejudices may be generated by particular organisational traditions regarding the ‘type of person’ considered suitable....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...class. But we belong to ecosystems as well, and the adaptability of human beings means that we can be found in all sorts of environments from the poles to the equator. As we have seen, all living things shape – and are shaped by – the physical environments that they inhabit. But no other species has our capacity to alter the world around it, to maximise the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...class teacher, SENCO, any learning support assistants involved, that would take place within the context of a kind of problem solving conversation, what the young person’s strengths are, in relation to that area of difficulty. From there, we would try to look at what types of strategies have been used to get that young person to that point and with what effect. And that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...feedback and suggestions for future improvement, in our optional end-of-course survey. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others. ...Session 1: Living in a world of risk: Introduction - In this session you will explore risk in the world around you, and be introduced to risk management as a professional discipline. You...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs