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Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...think we need to be available and have understanding and compassion.’ Tutors explained what students needed from them in relation to communication, which is the focus of the next activity. Activity 2 List what you think students told us they need their tutors to be. To start you off here are three examples: encouraging, personable, patient. Can you suggest five more?...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...systems move through, or heating systems fail. Moving around is not necessarily any better, and can expose us to even wider ranges of temperature. An airliner may leave the ground where the temperature is in the high twenties Celsius and climb within minutes to a height where the outside temperature is minus fifty. It turns out that almost all materials properties change...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Estimating the cost of equity
Money & Business

Estimating the cost of equity

...think they will go down, the yield curve will slope downwards. Flat yield curves are due to an expectation that interest rates will remain unchanged. However, supply and demand also influence yield curves. For example, if there is demand from banks for short-term government bonds and demand from long-term investors such as pension funds for long-term government bonds,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...thinks about the evidence is sometimes called ‘opinion’ evidence. Rather, witnesses limited to giving evidence of what they themselves directly perceived. However, expert evidence is an exception to this principle, and this section explains why. To understand why expert evidence is an exception to the rule against opinion evidence, it helps to first understand what...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...think for themselves. Education will mean that they ‘can use that mind and will to abolish the inhumanity, the beastliness, the horror, the folly of war’ (Black, 2001, p.77). That the Spanish Civil War had a profound effect on her thinking is clear, as she was supportive of socialist and anti-fascist movements. Her nephew Julian Bell went to Spain as an ambulance...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can rabies be eliminated from Asia by 2020?

...system and causes humans who are infected to hallucinate, become aggressive and even fear water. When someone is bitten, it’s crucial to wash the wound immediately and vaccinate them as soon as possible. But this rarely happens in India. Instead, many people end up being improperly treated – for example, not receiving a full course of vaccinations after exposure....
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Article 10 mins
Birth of a drug
Science, Maths & Technology

Birth of a drug

...systems are being used in this process to provide suitable leads, by consideration of the shape and electronic properties of the receptor or enzyme involved, and so designing compounds from first principles. The development of doxazosin, as described in the video, can be divided into a number of stages: the medical background; the pharmacological background; the project...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...system, what shape would you expect if the fertility rate was running at or around the replacement rate (2 children per woman)? What shape might you expect for a declining population (that is, one that is getting smaller over time?) Have a look at the population pyramids from different countries listed on the UN Demographic Profiles page to see if your predictions - and...
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Video 30 mins