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Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...Introduction - In this course you will find out some of the things very young babies can do. You will also discover how babies can contribute to family life and relationships from birth. You will look at what they need from other adults and children, and what they can learn. Using a video extract, you will observe and listen to young babies in action, and learn from them....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...management and treatment. In particular, post-mortem and pathological studies were to be carried out to determine the causes of death. Cleaning Some of the materials and methods used for cleaning at the various centres proved to be unsuitable for emaciated and highly stressed birds. The process took far too long, the detergents caused irritation, and often oil stains were...
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Article 10 mins
What is the genome made of?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is the genome made of?

...Introduction - Genomes are composed of DNA, and a knowledge of the structure of DNA is essential to understand how it can function as hereditary material. DNA is remarkable, breathtakingly simple in its structure yet capable of directing all the living processes in a cell, the production of new cells and the development of a fertilized egg to an individual adult. DNA has...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...Introduction - Family life is continuously changing in many ways. This course looks at the change, or lack of change, in the role of women and men in the home. The discussion of this topic will focus on the connectedness between women’s work in the paid labour force and their work in the home. In addition, underlying this will be our recognition that family life today...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Introduction - This course examines the subject of brain-based learning, with a particular focus on the development of the young child's brain and is of particular relevance to those who work with young children. We begin by looking at the structure and functions of the brain, and the impact that sensory deprivation can have on these. We consider the implications of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...project, the Victoria Embankment, wasn't officially opened until July 1870. However, the works themselves were a great success; the cement built sewer system lasted well into the 20th Century - and had London's population not expanded so rapidly, the tunnels would probably still be happily carting sewage away from the City now. However, with many more people, and much...
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Article 10 mins
The Labour Party purges
Society, Politics & Law

The Labour Party purges

...project – or indeed any other party at all. A large number of the rejections appear to be students. Rachel O’Brien is also a student activist and a current student in Birmingham. She describes herself as “heavily critical of the Labour Party and their current policies – but not opposed to the party as a whole”, and has, like Craig, never been a member of another...
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Article 10 mins
Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey
History & The Arts

Meetings with a polite Opium Eater: Charles Knight on Thomas De Quincey

...projected to appear in three volumes. He despairingly wrote to me: after weeding out the forests of rubbish, I believe it will make only one decent volume. At that time he was direly beset with visitations more terrible than the normal poverty of authors. A little before I knew him he had come one morning to my friend Hill, wet and shivering, having slept under a hayrick...
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Article 10 mins