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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...family, or they have to protect themselves in a way. And I think the health board would be unremitting in its treatment of various consultants who broke ranks. David Lewis I think that it’s only fair that we don’t lay all of the blame on [INAUDIBLE]. A lot of the change in practice has been imposed from Royal Colleges and other colleagues in the disciplines that we...
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...history of the mammals, from about 210 to 65 million years ago, dinosaurs dominated the plains and forests. But the dinosaurs conquered more than just the land: the seas and estuaries were home to other large aquatic reptiles, including ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. These animals disappeared at the same time as their terrestrial cousins - and their demise opened up new...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...family background that remains particularly influential for him, do you think, in the writing of 1984? DAVID: It's a very interesting question, and Orwell once said of the American writer Jack London, that he could foresee fascism because he had a fascist streak in himself. And although I wouldn't labour that point too prodigiously with regard to Orwell, we have to...
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...family? Did you visit your doctor? Did you go away? Have you visited an exhibition? Did you take part in sport? Did you buy a coffee or take-away meal? Did you use the internet to search for information or contact friends? Have you watched catch-up TV? Have a look at the suggestions that follow, as some of these contacts with the law may also appear on your list. Travel:...
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...history and has been almost entirely discredited...Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom: 2.4 Expertise - The next hurdle to admissibility is whether the individual witness is in fact an expert in the relevant area. If the witness possesses sufficient expertise, their evidence will be admissible even if the witness is not a terribly good expert. Once the...
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...history; this is known as the palaeoclimate record (from the Greek palaios for 'ancient'). Box 7 Proxy data: ways to reconstruct past climates (Stokstad, 2001) People have recorded the vicissitudes of climate and their impact on human affairs for centuries, so archaeological inscriptions and historical documents (diaries, ship's logs, etc.) are a valuable, if somewhat...
Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...history, something happened. We know that it lost its water but we don’t know how much water it had. For example, did Venus have enough water for the planet to be covered in oceans? Looking at Venus is also very helpful for studying planets in other solar systems. Many exoplanets are Venus-like (hot, with a thick atmosphere, slowly rotating, relatively close to their...