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Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...social life for the next ten weeks. Do the work you find most difficult when your concentration is strongest. Take regular breaks, perhaps every 45 minutes. Be flexible – reflect on whether your study pattern is working. For example, if you are getting less done in the evenings than you hoped, try something different – perhaps by studying in the early morning. Avoid...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...working for institutions concerned fundamentally with operating within and protecting the Constitution. We know that large organisations are subject to regime change. Regime change can and repeatedly does put even the core structural principles and values of any institution in jeopardy. Institutional memory fades and anything can be sacrificed to the agenda of the...
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Video 15 mins
Fossil evidence for evolution
History & The Arts

Fossil evidence for evolution

...work has more than borne out his theories, explains Peter Skelton...[An ammonite fossil embedded in rock.] We tend to think of Charles Darwin as a kindly-looking old man with a big beard, but let's wind the clock back to the vigorous 22-year old embarking in 1831 on the voyage of a lifetime around the world on the survey ship, HMS Beagle. Recently down from Cambridge, his...
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Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Remaking self-help

...work for different people and at different times. I’ve sometimes described it as ‘anti-self-help’ because it doesn’t locate our problems in us as individuals, and its starting point is a gentle criticism of mainstream self-help. But how is the project of producing self-help a research project, and what methods does it use? Actually my project weaves together...
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Article 5 mins
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...social structure, cultural norms and values, and climate? The discussions of Selvon’s novel in this course will offer some possible answers to this and other questions, through an emphasis on the themes of migration and memory...Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners: Leaving home - The issue of finding a ‘voice’ for the articulation of West Indian migrant experience has...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Jean-Francois Soussana - Stories of Change

...Working Group II of IPCC on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. He was Lead Author for the Third, Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports in the field of agriculture, forests and ecosystems and shared the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007. He has contributed to international research programs (GCTE, Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems; GCP, Global Carbon Project) and to...
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Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap
Education & Development

Decolonisation and Higher Education: Closing the Degree Awarding Gap

...working towards ‘culturally relevant education to all’, with challenges including the need to ‘re-acculturate’ pedagogy. While Jenny Douglas (2020) notes the importance of ‘checking that all content uses inclusive language; Content (including case studies) draws from sources that reflect a wide range of diversity; Ensuring students are exposed to a range of...
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Article 10 mins
FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT
Health, Sports & Psychology

FGM: Mental Health impact and CBT

...work, or social life to avoid distress, depression deepens, bringing sadness, shame, disconnection and hopelessness. Depression then makes it harder to cope with anxiety and trauma symptoms. Low mood can reduce motivation to seek support or use coping strategies, reinforcing the trauma cycle and leaving survivors feeling stuck in patterns of fear, avoidance and emotional...
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