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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...system of coding must be in operation when a different language is employed. However often we might insist on calling a ‘vache’ a ‘cow’ when in France, it will always remain a ‘vache’ for ‘les Français’. Although we may represent five cows by the number 5, it remains true that if we say or write that there are ‘five cows’ a French person will not...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...systemic changes to the way we operate, and we need to explain why we’re making those changes and why it’s good for everyone. And so if we’re making a tweak to a process, we need to bring people on board with why we’re making the tweak, test it, make sure that it works within our organisation, then roll it out, and we re-affirming why we’re doing it, and then be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...systems. Bronfenbrenner developed his theory to explain how you must look at the child and their immediate and wider environment, to identify the factors that affect their development. However, the different influences can’t be neatly separated out because the interaction between the different systems influence development and health. [This is a diagram with a set of...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...system that was devised by a German physician in 1796. Homeopathy was based on two ideas: firstly, that a substance that causes certain symptoms can also be used to cure those same symptoms, in other words ‘like cures like’, and secondly, that diluting a substance to minuscule levels increases its effectiveness. In the late eighteenth century, mainstream medical...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...system of parks, public gardens, and playgrounds, unusual in their number and variety, had a sympathetic allure in the gray, cool light, even to the spectator passing in a hurried hansom. They have not the unity of the Boston or Chicago parkways, and I will own that I had not come to Manchester for them. What interested me more were the miles and miles of
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Article 10 mins
Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Journeying through wellbeing: Exploring mental health and wellbeing

...Systemic and family psychotherapy Arts and play therapies Humanistic and integrative psychotherapies All of these talking therapies are designed to help people to overcome stress, emotional and relationship problems or troublesome habits. Different therapies are used for different types of problems. Depending on the nature of the issues therapy can also take place with...
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Article 10 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...systems in the World. But perhaps her best memorial is in her writings. In 1843 Ada was wondering if a machine could be intelligent: “ It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine. In considering any new subject, there is frequently a tendency, first, to overrate what we find to be...
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Article 15 mins
Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...systems were being installed a fish pass was incorporated to enable salmon to return to their spawning grounds. During this extensive phase of building work, the interpretation of the site for visitors was largely completed. A conscious decision was taken not to attempt to reconstruct the archaeological features of the tinplate works. Rebuilding was only undertaken for...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs