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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...which you will now go on to do...Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study: 2 What does history tell us? - Looking back through history can help tell us how things evolved to the present day. Any contemporary issue benefits from some context and background into how things have progressed to the present day. Activity 2 How much is doping just a modern phenomenon? Timing: Allow about 15 minutes ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...2 Intellectual property (IP) rights - Software can be expensive to produce. A substantial piece of software such as a database management or operating system will take several hundred person-years of effort to produce, and after that a large team of engineers will be required to maintain and evolve the software. How will this be paid for? Developments in technology have...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...2 Daily life and computers - If you take an average day in your life, you may find yourself surrounded by computers, most of which are invisible to you. This section looks at where computers are found in the course of everyday life. It aims to place computers in the context of the things we do in our day-to-day lives. It does this from two points of view: the individual,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Business models in strategic management
Money & Business

Business models in strategic management

...2: Deliveroo The concept behind Deliveroo is that its app connects restaurants, potential clients and riders working as intermediaries. In this business model, value is created through the combined activities of the restaurant and the rider who relate to the client by the app platform. The clients benefit from the standardised interaction with the restaurant and so does...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...2 On this painted pot, Io is seen after her transformation into a cow, with Argus and Hermes. Ovid tells this story in Book 1 of the Metamorphoses. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. At the beginning of his poem, Ovid himself tells us what the poem will be about. Let’s read it now, and investigate what insights it offers into the Metamorphoses. Activity 1 Beginnings...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...2 Mama [Victoria, Duchess of Kent] joined us at breakfast, after which we went out walking with Papa [Ernest I, Prince Albert's father] and showed him the Rockery and all our improvements, the Kennels, &c. It is a pleasure to show him anything, as he is so easily pleased, and takes such interest in everything, being so worthy of all. We then drove to Frogmore, where we...
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Article 5 mins
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...2 pm in this workplace and, besides, worked all evening for another cleaning company. That is why he tried to learn Finnish during the workdays, despite his isolation. He had asked his supervisors to use Finnish instead of English with him, and he tried to learn from the instructions they gave. Partly because of our teacher–student relationship, Kifibin asked me a lot...
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Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are old voting machines a threat to democracy?

...2 billion to update the nation’s voting infrastructure. More than a decade later, these voting machines are approaching the end of their expected lifespans. Experts estimate that a reasonable lifespan for electronic voting machines (which are computers, running mainly on laptop technology developed in the 1990s) is in the 10- to 15-year range. To determine the state of...
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