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What failing in the learning journey feels like
Education & Development

What failing in the learning journey feels like

...study. How the feedback of a failure is delivered can impact how one feels and reacts to a failed grade. Often, feedback that is given is brief, procedural, and detached — written feedback is the main source of feedback, but without a space for dialogue, it becomes static and a verdict rather than a conversation. The opportunity for verbal feedback doesn’t often...
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Integrated health, safety and environmental management
Science, Maths & Technology

Integrated health, safety and environmental management

...studies - farming, food manufacturing and urban redevelopment - and explores the varying approaches to risk management within each different sphere. It includes a visit to Fox's Biscuits and Brooksby Agricultural College in the UK and the city of Pittsburgh in the USA, and includes interviews with participants, academics and professional experts. The material forms part...
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Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...studying this course you will need access to a copy of this book (ISBN 071266582x) You will look in detail at the methods she has used to approach her subject and the different kinds of primary sources available to her. You will also be asked to think about how an artist's work relates to his or her life, and especially how useful it is to understand one in terms of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...studying this course, you should be able to: define mindfulness practise mindfulness in daily life understand how mindfulness can help clients with mental health difficulties describe how mindfulness can be useful in prison settings critically evaluate ‘the mindfulness movement’...Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings: 1 Mindfulness - [Described image]...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Colour of Success: Can uniform colour impact on team success?

...study revealed that penalty takers wearing red were perceived by the Goalkeepers in two key ways: 1. that they would possesses more positive characteristics than those wearing white and 2. And that their chance of successfully saving penalty kicks from them was lower than those wearing white. While research in sport has predominantly focused on the colour red, some...
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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...study the universe with optical telescopes for hundreds of years. We have expanded that view hugely since the middle of the 20th century, by building detectors and instruments sensitive to all the forms of what physicists mean by light: the electromagnetic spectrum, from gamma rays to radio. Yet the discovery of gravitational waves represents our first steps into studying...
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What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?
Society, Politics & Law

What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?

...study question. They found that those in the highest income quintile bought toilet paper on sale 39% of the time, compared to only 28% among those in the lowest income quintile. The highest income quintile also bought more rolls on average compared to those in the lowest 20% (14.6 rolls vs 9.8 rolls). As a result, those of lower income pay about 6% extra per sheet....
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Here’s the truth about false accusations of sexual violence
Health, Sports & Psychology

Here’s the truth about false accusations of sexual violence

...Studies carried out in Europe and in the US indicate rates of between 2% and 6%. It’s important to recognise that even official statistics on false reporting can and have been inflated by other factors. Sometimes police record cases as “no crime” or “unfounded”. This can happen when it’s difficult to attain sufficient corroborating evidence. There is, however,...
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