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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...world.’ [A young Indian woman dedicated to e-learning at her home office, using a laptop for webinars and courses] Where young adult carers can find education and employment support • Talk to staff at your local young adult carers service or carers centre. Check out the website of the Carers Trust to find out where the nearest young adult carers service is located:...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...world situates us and defines who we are. Consider the three following non-linguistic signs. [Figure 1] Figure 1 Three non linguistic signs Respectively, these signify a commercial brand, a road sign and a major piece of commemorative architecture (and tourist attraction!). Even while respecting varying cultural norms it might be argued that these are immediately...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...world that seems somewhat underplayed, especially when Scope 2 requires companies to consider the energy used by their customers in using their products or services. While there are calls for the scope guidance to be updated, many companies are already opting for a more integrous forward-thinking approach, accounting for work-from-home (WFH) remote energy consumption...
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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...world, is underpinned by the belief that we all see things from different perspectives and that knowledge is constructed through social interaction. A positivist on the other hand sees the world as a set of ‘objects’, independent of our perspective, and believes that knowledge is accumulated through by conducting experiments in which variables are controlled....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...world, denounced what they had come to view as the ‘mainstream criminological ideology’ (Taylor et al., 1973). It is here that the story of critical criminology begins. It is important to recognise that much of the ‘criminological project’ has been characterised by knowledges developing either in parallel – or in response to – changing social conditions. New...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
The frozen planet
Nature & Environment

The frozen planet

...world demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the processes and interactions (physical, biological, chemical and geological) which shape the polar environment at different temporal and spatial scales express concepts in an objective and factually correct way make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual, numerical or graphical material...The...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...World Health Organisation (WHO, 2020) breaks down the concept of community empowerment as follows: Community empowerment refers to the process of enabling communities to increase control over their lives. Communities are groups of people that may or may not be spatially connected, but who share common interests, concerns or identities. These communities could be local,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...World War. Just combatants fighting by unjust means: the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima by the Enola Gay . Unjust combatants fighting by just means: Erwin Rommel (burning of the commando order). Unjust combatants fighting by unjust means: most of the German war campaign of the Second World War, especially, for example, the London Blitz. I do not wish to smuggle in...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs