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The importance of education for students in secure environments
Education & Development

The importance of education for students in secure environments

...change the lives of people in prison, and that everyone should have the chance to study while there. PET’s role includes funding courses at levels and in subjects that are otherwise unavailable, supporting students to choose courses and progress with their learning and championing the life-changing power of education to prisons, policymakers and the public. PET offer...
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What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?
Digital & Computing

What are your chances during a zombie apocalypse?

...changed four variables in world: how likely a zombie is to infect a person they meet how much people seek out other non-zombie people how much better groups are at defending each other than lone individuals how dense the initial population is Each variable changed over a range, and I set up a virtual world for each of the 3000 or so combinations of starting conditions....
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5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia
Health, Sports & Psychology

5 reasons why exercising outdoors is great for people who have dementia

...changed over the past years etc. Also, going outdoors regularly makes us get more vitamin D that is vital for our bones to stay healthy. 3. Regular exercise improves our mood & helps to tackle depression [Happy senior woman] Exercise sessions have been reported to improve mood in general amongst people living with dementia. Depression in people living with dementia is one...
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace

...change. Flanagan delivered the RUC into the new beginning, and Orde’s task was implementing the many reforms of the 1999 Patten Report. At one point, mischievously, I guess, he had offered to address the Sinn Féin Special Ard Fheis on policing. It was too soon for that and, at times, new policing, like the new politics and the new peace still struggles. So, there is an...
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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. (Ruth Bader Ginsberg) The delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo were the first Games where equal numbers of events and medals were available to females and males. The gap in the number of competitors has started to even out with around 52% athletes competing in male events and 48% in female events. In the 2020s there has...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...change in the shape of a word. English itself was originally more inflected than it is today, and still retains some examples, as we shall see later. Word order Where English says ‘Brutus murdered Caesar’, Greek and Latin prefer the word order ‘Brutus Caesar murdered’. Indeed they have the option of placing the words in any order without altering the meaning of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...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
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...change formulas round...Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas: 1 Exploring patterns and processes - Suppose you are tiling a bathroom or kitchen and the last row of square tiles is to be a frieze made up of blank tiles and patterned tiles as shown below. [Figure 1] Figure 1 A friend has offered to help. How would you describe the pattern and how to arrange the tiles?...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs