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How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can we encourage people to mend their clothes?

...work. A repair café might be perfect for the craft mender, but not very appealing to the delegating mender or someone who’s never picked up a needle. So what do we do? Stitching together a solution To build a mending mindset across society, we need to bring together lots of threads. Here are just a few ideas: Bring back sewing in schools, so future generations grow up...
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Why has English taken over academia?
Languages

Why has English taken over academia?

...work produced outside of their own language community. This facilitates international collaboration and, at least ideally, strengthens and validates research. In teaching, using English enables the mobility of staff and students and makes it possible for students to study abroad and get input from other cultures. It also helps develop language skills and intercultural...
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People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...work – when product usability, particularly of consumer products, could be improved. Of course usability is just one of the many factors that designers need to be aware of. Products need to be manufacturable, they need to use materials that are suitable, they need to be sustainable and they need to be available to consumers at a certain price. Nevertheless, this course...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...work of an escalating number of people and resources over many years. A major component of this cost has been the attrition rate of medicines that reach the development stage but then fail as the result of adverse toxicity or only limited effectiveness against the target disease. In recent years much greater attention has been paid to addressing the problems of attrition...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...working with older people with learning disabilities, including those whose behaviour may challenge others. It is for registered professionals and non-registered health and social care workers. The course has been developed from the findings of Growing Older – Planning Ahead, an independent research project funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...Work done is measured in: a.Joules b.Watts c.Coulombs d.Newtons Having just finished the class, most students will be able to select the correct response, a). However, this does not necessarily mean that they have a deep understanding of what ‘work done’ represents, nor how to calculate it. They may have memorised terms or equations well enough to be able to select...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...works and governs every aspect of our lives. Law, however, is not constant. It changes over time, and those changes are often driven by the passionate beliefs of individuals seeking to remedy inequalities to create a better and more equal society, and who might be seeking a remedy for the wrong they or others have suffered. Before moving on to the next section you should...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...work tends to be flexible so I can chaperone my children to their sporting activities, which are often at awkward times and challenging distances away. For example, my eldest son may have a training session 65 miles away from our home. Compare this to my cousin who cannot get time off to take her son to Basketball training or her daughter to athletics training because she...
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