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Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...education, healthcare and employment were disproportionately borne by the some of the most vulnerable, including the poor, older people, and also suggesting a gendered impact reflecting gender inequality as well. Furthermore, ethnicity was seen as a particularly significant factor in terms of who was affected (Hartman and Squires, 2006b). Structures of inequality have...
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...education, would not let women take the exams needed to qualify as a solicitor. In 1914, four women brought a case against the Law Society,Footnote 1 but they lost. The courts ruled that women should continue to be excluded from the profession because that had been accepted practice for centuries. Ethnic minority men were not formally prohibited from becoming lawyers....
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...technology...Scales in space and time: 1.2 Units - When exploring different scales, you will inevitably encounter a number of different units. There is an International System of Units that gives a preferred unit (known as an SI unit) for each type of measurement. For time, this is seconds (abbreviated to s) and for distance this is metres (m). These are both known as...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004
History & The Arts

The Empties Generation: Why did we hit peak booze in 2004

...education for offenders and media campaigns. British roads might also be safer because more of our drinking now takes place at home. Still, the steady decline in drink-driving fatalities of the last 40 years was temporarily reversed between 1999 and 2004 – a period that closely matches the rapid rise in alcohol consumption that led to Peak Booze. We just don’t know if...
EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...education and also teaches science communication, discusses this issue. What are her suggestions? Transcript When you’re thinking about creating the slides for a presentation, there’s a couple of good rules of thumb to remember. One is to stick to one idea per slide. And the other is that it takes approximately two minutes to present a slide. So for a ten-minute...
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...education have come to the foreground and issues of unemployment suggest very different things. If you're talking about the indigenous population, whether that's of Welsh, Scottish, English or South Asian heritage, then you might move in a particular way in terms of the policy in comparison to if you're talking about groups of people who are migrant into the country. And...
Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Sir David Attenborough - Earth in Vision

...education and facilities, that the birth rate falls, and that doesn’t just apply to necessarily the wealthy West. It applies in Kerala in India for example. There’s nowhere where that circumstance applies where the birth rate has not either diminished or remained comparatively low. So that’s one way in which we can do that. And once you allow people to control their...
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...education, their stony wills; has developed into a political movement, quite apart from Marxianism, which threatens to harden into almost as rigorous an extremism as Leninism itself." SEANDAMER This language managed to do something very clever. It conflated the alleged Bolshevism of Glasgow with its slums. The deviant slum image of the middle of the nineteenth century had...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr