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Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...education. Involving people with lived experience can give prominence to elements of knowledge that are not always visible in academic publications and these insights can highlight how social work practice is experienced in everyday life. Hearing directly from people who have interacted with services can challenge assumptions and encourage students to reflect on how their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...Education Quality Mark. You study eight straight-forward online sessions of 1-2 hours each with: plenty of step-by-step animations and practical tips to help you straight away real-life case studies featuring current school students and university students who reflect on their experiences living away from home for the first time useful videos from money experts There are...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...education.’ NS: There will have to be substantial investment in different ways of doing things, but what we’ve seen over the last nine years since the stern review was published, very rapid falls in the costs of alternative technologies. I started work ten years ago on the Stern Review – the cost of a solar PV panel has come down by a factor of around ten in that...
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Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...education and other areas of policy implementation in Scotland. Throughout the twentieth century, housing, health, social services and other sectors came under the auspices of the Scotland Office in London. Devolution shifted responsibility to the reconvened Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999 and along with this a range of other areas of public services were classed...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...Education, Childhood & Youth...Understanding society: Families: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of some of the debates and key concepts involved in the study of family life; show the connectedness that has developed over time between the work men and women do inside the home and women's role in paid...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Can engineering help improve patient safety?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can engineering help improve patient safety?

...technology, but about the system and the people within the system. When he trains healthcare professionals, he avoids using words like ‘risk’, which mean different things in medicine and engineering, and instead asks questions to get them thinking about the system. “We need to look through the eyes of the healthcare providers to see the challenges and to understand...
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Article 5 mins
What should we watch out for as Trump meets Xi?
Society, Politics & Law

What should we watch out for as Trump meets Xi?

...withdrawing from, or rewriting, those accords, there is no easy cure for the proliferation of new technologies, which are the real culprits in the decline of U.S. industrial production. And so, since trade is a policy lever that can be easily pulled, politicians inevitably rush to do so. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Older carers, COVID-19 and physical activity

...technology and advances in health care practices, participation in regular physical activity cannot be overlooked. Just because we reach a certain number/milestone birthday, or enter into retirement does not mean we have to adopt a sedentary lifestyle.Physiologists McArdle, Katch and Katch (1996) further illustrated the natural effects of ageing on human function and...
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Article 10 mins