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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...centres, industrial activities or ecosystems). Since its inception in 1995, the Programme has offered people opportunities to acquire a living wage and new skills. In some project areas, the Programme provides childcare, community centres, national water conservation education and has also improved general health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...centres). Secondly, the success of such technologies depends on factors that go well beyond the purely technical, to include, especially, human and organisational factors, but also many others. When we talk about IT systems we mean both more than technology and – within the technology – more than software. Hardware technology is just as important for IT success as...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...researchers the coupled evolution of life and planet Earth, develops and uses Earth system models, and studies the prospects for early warning of climate tipping points. His work won the Times Higher Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award...
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An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...researchers who are studying what do we know about how people learn. The software engineers who are looking at what are the affordances of the technology, the human computer interaction experts who look at the interface between humans and computers, and the domain experts, the faculty who teach statistics, chemistry, philosophy. This is not just about online courseware....
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...Research Centre School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community health. Duffy, K. (2013) ‘Providing constructive feedback to students during mentoring’. Nursing Standard, pp. 27, 31, 50–6. Hardavella, G., Aamli-Gaagnat, A., Saad, N., Rousalova, I. and Sreter, K.B. (2017) ‘How to give and receive feedback effectively’. Breathe (Sheff), 13(4), pp. 327–33. Available...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Children like sweets. a. (i) All women like fashion. b. (ii) Drinking too much wine can be bad for your health. c. (iii) Studying abroad can be quite challenging. d. (iv) Children like sweets. The correct answers are a and d. Answer The sweeping generalisations are: (i) All women like fashion and (iv) Children like sweets. At university it is considered that writers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is there a tax on tampons - and why is it so hard to make sanitary protection tax free?

...children’s clothing. The negotiation was final and, crucially, did not include sanitary products. Sanitary products were charged at the standard rate in the UK until the 2000 budget at which point the VAT rate on sanitary products was reduced to 5%. The essential legal instrument regulating VAT application across the EU contains three provisions relevant to the tampon...
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Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...children, Jim, the little boy who let go of nurse’s hand, did indeed experience something worse: he was eaten by a lion. Instead of pointing that out, the Prime Minister David Cameron said that a vote to leave the EU would be ‘a leap in the dark’: ‘Our current access to the single market would cease immediately after two years were up; our current trade agreements...
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