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Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...technology course helpful for brushing up. Returning to the example of the aeroplane, the atmospheric pressure at cruising altitude (e.g. 243 mmHg at 30 000 feet or 9100 metres) is much lower than that at sea level (760 mmHg). If you were exposed to that same pressure as a passenger, the pressure in your lungs would be greater than that of the atmosphere, and you would be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...education programmes struggle to overcome basic lack of knowledge about vaccination, especially in communities where literacy rates are low and poverty is a daily fact of life. A survey of over 27 000 children in 24 African countries concluded that poor parental education and lack of access to information were critical factors in areas of low vaccine coverage. Only 71% of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...educated people believing. I mean look at America.’ ‘Well, they all say that he’s – he will help the poor and that but, yeah, all this stuff that’s happening like there’s poverty, and all these wars going on, and there’s like tsunamis and that. And it doesn’t look like he’s helping. Actually you kind of want to think like is he really out there to help...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...educated enough to be out in the world, I was taught. INTERVIEWER: Did anyone ever die in there? SUBJECT: Oh, die – I was at so many funerals. They were buried on the grounds of the Hyde Park. There was nothing religious in the ground where they were buried. It was just like a green playground, really. INTERVIEWER: What do you mean? Sorry. SUBJECT: It was just a green...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...Education and Action Fund. And that had been set up when the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was originally enacted. And their particular interest was in persuading the Supreme Court or advising the Supreme Court in how the equality guarantees in the Canadian Charter – so the Canadian Charter guarantees rights to equality before and under the law. And LEAF was...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...education. The analysis of the video tapes focused on recording and coding emotional events in the infants’ experience (smiles, whines, cries, etc.), and on mothers’ responses to these events. First, it was found that insecure-ambivalent infants showed the highest frequencies of emotional events, followed by secure infants, with insecure-avoidant infants showing the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...education, the government-financed funding councils specify how costs are to be reported. The need to comply with public sector external reporting requirements focuses organisations on determining the costs that have to be identified to meet those requirements. This is also the case for commercial and not-for-profit organisations. The way they calculate their costs is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...education, hobbies, beliefs, values, lifestyle. Personal history: major events in their life, including the best and the most traumatic times. Don’t write any more than outline notes for the moment. You will use this character profile later so make sure you know where to find it. You can use this as an ongoing method – creating a profile with headings such as these...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs