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Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...communities to insecure work, long-term unemployment for many people. And as a result, you have these tensions, these fissures which exist and what we have seen with strivers versus skivers is particularly an appeal to the working poor, people struggling to make ends meet, who feel resentful at this idea of someone down the road enjoying a higher standard of living than...
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Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...communication along with written communication is going to be the absolute must. And I think if you become really good at that, particularly the written conversation, because these notes are not just going to be for you, for users; those notes are going to be read by other people and they have to be meaningful for them. And has to reflect and has to be understood and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...communicate information are to make the data immediately clear, and to facilitate picking out important patterns in them with the minimum of effort. To this end, there are several guidelines for producing tables which should be borne in mind. Guidelines for tables Labelling of rows and columns should be clear and unambiguous. A table should contain the minimum amount of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...community in which 87 per cent of children live below the official poverty line. With no work available nearby, Tamarla Owens joined the daily bus-full of workers who went to service the affluent residents of Oakland County in return for US$5.50 (about £3) an hour. Dick Clarke's restaurant chain sought special tax breaks for its service to the community in placing people...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...communicate through microphones (see Figure 2). The experimenter reveals that the study is designed to investigate the effect of punishment on learning. The ‘teacher’ will be asked to administer an electric shock to the ‘learner’ every time the latter makes an incorrect response on the memory task. [Described image] Figure 2 The layout of the experiment at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Succeed with maths: part 2 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 2

...communicate this. People use numbers to solve a wide variety of different problems, including when designing buildings, navigating and working out the fuel consumption of an aircraft. These examples all use measurements that involve distance and it is these types of situations this week will be concentrating on. For this, it is important that you have a working knowledge...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing resilience in sport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing resilience in sport

...communication but also things around kind of forming a really good social identity within the team. So I think relationships are really, really important. And then secondly, one of the key messages, really, that we’ve kind of come across is that just because you’ve got a set of resilient individuals, that doesn’t necessarily guarantee a resilient team. And kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...communicate) the value you add to those more distant colleagues in your organisation (including leadership teams) by widening your appreciation of your own capabilities (and potential capabilities), puts you in a stronger position to seize opportunities to develop yourself, your team and your organisation. Recognising the value others across the organisation contribute:...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs