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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...education and more-- an information campaign about the pros of the capacity act and how to comply with it. There's likely to be big changes in the next 10 years to mental health and mental capacity legislation. This is being driven by two main forces. The first is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. This requires law to pay far more...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 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...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...Education for action: Preparing youth for participatory democracy’, ann an R. Hayduk, & K. Mattson (Eds.), Democracy’s moment: Reforming the American political system for the 21st Century. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: pp. 91–107. Westheimer, J., & Kahne, J. (2004) ‘What kind of citizen?: the politics of educating for democracy’, American...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...education. The course is divided into 5 weeks...Welcome to this free course on Teaching Spanish pronunciation. This short course is aimed at teachers of Spanish working in the United Kingdom who wish to extend their theoretical knowledge on teaching Spanish pronunciation. It offers ideas and practical skills that can be used in the classroom, be that virtual or...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 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...
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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...
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