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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...change that balance as their freelance work becomes more successful. Depending on the circumstances, a portfolio career can potentially give you more options if something unexpected happens. For example, you may be able to focus your time and attention on certain roles that are more resilient to whatever change has arisen, changing the balance again when the situation...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...changes direction (as in making a rapid turn to avoid an opponent in hockey). In the next section you will further your understanding of speed by exploring biomechanical principles...Training for speed and power in sport and fitness: 2.1 The mechanics of speed - In this section you will investigate the biomechanics of speed in order to buttress your understanding of speed...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...change their meaning. Gallstones Again, context would be a useful strategy. From the context in which this word is used, it is possible to understand that this is a disease as it is part of a list of diseases from which obese people may suffer. Depending on the purpose for reading this text, you may decide that it is not essential to understand the word in order to gain a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...changed this landscape, I need to find out what it looked like when they first arrived and that is what botanist Steve Clifton is going to help me do. Wendy There's something really magical about it. How can I begin to tell how old it is? Steve One of the first things to do in a place like this is to look at the vegetation: the trees, the wildlife, in particular the...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...changes as you progress through this unit. We will meet the concept of risk in various sections and it will be dealt with from different perspectives by different authors. However, for the present, we can consider the following definitions. First, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has the following definitions: Risk Hazard, danger, exposure to mischance or peril. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?
History & The Arts

Should Trump's tweets be a matter of record?

...changed, however, after Richard Nixon’s presidency. Congress created the Presidential Records Act of 1978 out of concern that former president Nixon would destroy the tapes that led to his resignation. The PRA sets strict rules for presidential records created during a president’s term. They include material related to “constitutional, statutory, or other official...
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Article 5 mins
Fake news during COVID-19
Science, Maths & Technology

Fake news during COVID-19

...changes, and in a journal where one of the authors is the Editor in Chief. That is perceived as a huge conflict of interest. Kaustubh: Is our traditional approach to scientific research too slow when facing such crises? Both in terms of addressing the problem, and on being exploited by dishonest scientists. Elisabeth: For published, peer-reviewed papers, yes, scientific...
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Article 10 mins
‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...change nurses’ desire to migrate to the UK in search of a better life. Recruitment agencies made migration possible. For a fee, they provided help with visas, work permits and assistance to find employment as care assistants in private nursing homes, who offered the adaptation course required by the NMC. The agencies also assisted them to find accommodation, offered...
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Article 5 mins