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COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...becomes infected, and the immune system then reacts to destroy the virus and virus-infected cells. In the end, the immune system prevails and there is no longer any of the virus left in that host – this is referred to as sterile immunity. Usually, an acute infection will last for a few weeks, at most. However, some virus infections can evade the immune system and lie...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...students from the School of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care were asked to consider this question, more than two-thirds selected ‘Yes – a little (being overweight is somewhat to do with a person’s lifestyle)’. The results were as follows (from a group of 253 respondents): A. Yes – entirely (being overweight is entirely related to a person’s lifestyle) = 13%...
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...student. He is reflecting on how different conceptions of rights and responsibilities influence this work. While studying E131 and E118 over the last few years I have read about and met people who work for a number of projects and organisations who ensure Young People are aware of the rights that they have. These include things like housing and rights to benefits. I was...
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...becoming more important...Communication and digital collaboration skills are now essential for new ways of working and thriving in a digital world. As more organisations move to permanent hybrid working, being able to connect with others, manage your digital persona and use the digital tools and understand expectations is becoming more important. This course is part of...
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...students wanting to enhance their individual professional practice. Understanding STiP is presented in two parts introducing three core STiP activities based on a STiP heuristic for making strategy and improving ‘wicked’ situations of change and uncertainty. This course provides a brief overview of five key systems approaches. These approaches are: system dynamics...
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...students and professionals alike...Although ethics is often viewed as an academic specialism or an add-on to training programmes in technology and science, it is in fact an area of the utmost relevance to professionals and, indeed, everyone. This free course, Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences, draws upon examples taken from dialogues, plays and the...
Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...students. How much clay will each group get? Figure 3 Expressed as a decimal: 35 ÷ 8 You can see that each group would get 4.375 kg of clay. Activity 3: Expressing a remainder as a decimal Work out the answers to the following without using a calculator. 178 ÷ 4 212 ÷ 5 63 ÷ 8 227 ÷ 4 Answer 44.5 42.4 7.875 56.75...Session 1: Working with numbers: 1.2 Interpreting...
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...become very important. There are many different types of data. Continuous data is something you measure, like, the length of a piece of wood. A box of nails is usually something you can count, which is called discrete data. Different ways of displaying data include using graphs. A line graph can show the relationship between some data about a shelf. A pie chart can show...
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