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Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...adaptation. Including all children How adults support learning for children with special needs and mother tongues other than English. Information and sharing Three mothers discuss the importance of sharing information with learning practitioners, and how this two-way process can invigorate the development of children and their individuality. ICT and learning Sinead...
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Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Extreme endurance performances – who, what and why?

...adapts physiologically to the short-term stress of exercise or physical activity, and the long-term stress of physical training and competition. For example, a sport physiologist may examine the effect of high amounts of exercise on the systems of the body. Sport and exercise psychology is the scientific study of behaviour in sport and the application of the principles of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change's causes, effects and geographies of responsibility

...adapt. There is now evidence that ecosystems are starting to migrate altitudinally (uphill) and latitudinally (towards the poles) in search of cooler climes. And there is a growing recognition, including from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), that millions of people are now moving home as environmental refugees in response to environmental changes such as...
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How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...adapted the music and songs of the river sung by African Americans working the tall-stack riverboats between Cincinnati and New Orleans: ‘Oh! Susanna’, ‘Old Folks at Home’, ‘Swanee River’, ‘Old Black Joe’ etc. Jessie returned home to Swansea in 1866 after the end of the American Civil War. She was aged 74 when The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a choir of freed...
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Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda
Languages

Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda

...Et maintenant, « que la Force soit avec vous »! Drag and drop may not work on mobile devices but you can still reorder the sentences in your head (or on paper) and click to reveal the answer afterwards. 1) Toujours par deux ils vont. Ni plus, ni moins. Le maître et son apprenti. Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice. - Star Wars: Episode I...
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The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?
Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...et al., 2021, p. 6). This was reportedly because employees had evaluated their job satisfaction during lockdown periods in particular, discovered they were in fact unhappy and handed in their notices accordingly. In fact there have been claims that this level of turnover was as much driven by people leaving work altogether as it was them moving to different employment....
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To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...et al published a paper looking at green glass which is produced in firefight interruptions to the moon surface and they found significant quantities of volatiles present. This led to a reanalysis of all the polar samples found a few tens of ppm to a few hundreds of ppm of water especially present in lunar rocks and this water is primordial water thought to be have been...
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Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...Adapted from De Pelsmacker et al. (2017, p. 219)...Marketing communications in the digital age: 5.2 Shock - Whilst some messages play on people’s fears, others intentionally shock the audience to get their attention. Here, it is the surprise caused by the message that creates the initial impact. The shock can be caused by a wide variety of stimuli: an upsetting image, a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs