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White dwarfs and neutron stars
Science, Maths & Technology

White dwarfs and neutron stars

...data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and HST showing the multipolar planetary nebula NGC 6543. (c) A composite view of the AGB star L2 Puppis in visible light (blue) and radio (orange) revealing a giant planet shaping the outflow from the star. (d) ALMA radio observations reveal a spiral structure in the material around the AGB star R Sculptoris. The majority of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which protects an individual’s right to confidentiality as far as their personal data is concerned. She also refers to the QCS (an online system) containing all the policies and procedures which are used in their company and which she follows all the time. She then gives the example of how she recently had to access this system to look...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...data with the Home Office to track failed asylum seekers and people who have overstayed visas. And when he’s stressed, he struggles to understand English and he can’t remember what he was told in hospital. Abdul has chosen to apply for accommodation through the Home Office and he’s also appealing his decision with a solicitor. He’s been allocated a shared room in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...analysis? Discussion Boatwright draws on a range of archaeological evidence to construct her argument: the architectural remains of the temple (complicated by the restoration by Maxentius), coins and brick stamps. She is dismissive of Dio Cassius’ anecdote about Hadrian and Apollodorus and therefore relies almost entirely on archaeological evidence. She also uses...
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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

...analysis of patterns of symptoms. At the time Nicholas Jewson published his article ‘The disappearance of the sick-man from medical cosmology, 1770–1870’ (1976), few historians would have questioned how the laboratory acquired this central role within medicine. In an area when ‘high tech’, scientific medicine seemed to supply an endless stream of new theories...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...analysis. Activity 1 Read the passage below, the ‘All the world’s a stage’ speech from Act 2, Scene 7 of the play. The numbered footnotes in the extract below can be accessed by clicking here: Passage 1 footnotes. If you would like to view text and footnotes together, you can do so on the Internet Shakespeare Editions website (lines 1118–1145, with notes indicated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...analysis). f.This is likely to be the responsibility of a functional team, possibly with baton passing, or with a project manager or coordinator if it is part of a wider project. The question did not mention a new system, so the straightforward computerisation of an existing system with known requirements is implied – hence the choice of a functional approach. g.The...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...analysis of Rommel? Discussion For McMahan, Rommel is like a burglar who refrains from torturing your pets. It is better that they do not torture your pets, but not really the point. Whether or not they torture your pets, they should not be burgling your house. Their actions are still impermissible – wrong. They act wrongly, not honourably...The moral equality of...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs