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Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...system http://www.bbc.co.uk/ news/ uk-18198380 (Accessed 09 January 2013). Beaumont, J. (2011) Households and Families, Office for National Statistics. Barnardo’s (2012) ‘Young carers’ [Online]. Available at http://www.barnardos.org.uk/ what_we_do/ our_projects/ young_carers.htm (Accessed 12 April 2012). Becker, S. (2000) ‘Young carers’, in Davies, M. (ed) The...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...system for decimals, can you use your rounding skills to estimate calculations using decimals? This skill would be needed in everyday life to approximate the cost of your shopping. Example: Approximations with decimals Give approximate answers to these. Round each decimal number to the nearest whole number before you calculate. 2.7 + 9.1 9.6 cm – 2.3 cm 2.8 g × 2.6 g...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...system was designed to teach. (Prensky, 2001, p. 1) Activity 3 What is your opinion? Should parents, education and other services adapt to children’s eagerness to embrace new technologies? Think about your answer and make notes of your views...Week 1: How different is a digital childhood?: 2.3 Digital natives: fact or fiction? - [Described image] Figure 6 If the idea of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...systems – Polaris, and then Trident – which were deployed on submarines based at Clyde Naval Base, near Glasgow. These issues resonated differently in different parts of the UK, leading to more targeted local campaigns. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw the emergence of new forms of anti-nuclear activism. Especially striking were ‘die-ins’, in which groups of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...system’. It is a combination of conscious and unconscious values and the actions of your organisation. Mix them together and you get a certain feel and a culture. To others, culture is a feeling (Dyer and Shepherd ,2021, p. 21). The takeaway here is that there is no right or wrong answer as to what culture is or isn’t, or should and shouldn’t be. In the following...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...system. What is done in my country is quite different from what is expected here. I’m not clever enough to write an assignment. How do I organise essays and reports? I don’t understand the assignment title. What am I expected to do? I look at the blank page. I don’t know where to start or what to write. I can write short informal pieces but I have never written a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...System, thus setting the agenda for various surveys [Described image] Figure 7 Translation: the government funds and administers the national crime survey. British crime surveys have been carried out in 1983, 1985, 1989, 1992, 1994 and 1996, drawing on a representative sample of 10,000 people over the age of 15, drawn from the electoral register until 1988. The British...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...system of strategies and techniques. These will be supplied in part by historical example, by what writers in the past have tried to do. But techniques are also arrived at through the poet’s own exploration of these elements. Poets may choose to write in a traditional form – say a ballad or a sonnet. Alternatively they may choose to write in what is often called...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs