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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...student events of 1968, but also about the state of the nation from a New Left stance. British cinema, whether mainstream or amateur, has always reflected contemporary society but always engaged with its cultural and social values. It’s usually reinforced them, occasionally contested them but always provided an insight into the social history of the period, from the...
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Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...becoming more demanding. Her depression required hospitalisation. ‘Work had always been really important to me and I’m more like a perfectionist. So everything has to be a 100%, you know, and all that. And I got made promotion several times with my job, and then suddenly, I think like many companies, people started making people redundant, and requesting people to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...becomes possible to identify a focus for positive forms of Black leadership in the future...Week 1: Understanding power and its effects: 2.1 Power over movement - Crucial to a person’s freedom is how easy or otherwise it is to move around space. Being able to move easily and affordably creates options for work and leisure. It is perhaps no surprise, then, that transport...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...students for their future? Davies and Ellison have identified ten key re-engineering trends for schools, which are summarised below. [Described image] Figure 1 Ten key re-engineering trends Many of these trends are beginning to show through already. Of course, these can be added to by each school as it sees fit. The contents of Every Child Matters, Extended Schools and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...students who are both new to statistics, and new to the software package SPSS. For many students statistics represent an area that they are concerned about, either because they have had little experience of statistics before, or due to concerns over the mathematics that might be involved. These interactive videos are designed to help you familiarise yourself with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...become ‘the national environment’? [Described image] Figure 1 The environment? A single tree in a field, a wooded area, the European area or the entire Earth Scale issues apart, the phrase ‘the environment’ also presents significant issues in terms of who is using the term and in what way. Is ‘the environment’ of one person the same as ‘the environment’ of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...becomes clear. Because of its vital role in quality control, David Lane nicknamed p53 ‘the guardian of the genome’. The gene itself is disabled by mutation or some other faulty mechanism in almost every case of human cancer. Most often this corruption of p53 occurs spontaneously in individual cells or tissues that have sustained some damage in the rough and tumble of...
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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...become a highly symbolic cause celebre for idealistic left-wing sympathisers from outside Spain. Orwell travelled to Spain as a journalist at the end of 1936. On arrival, however, he enlisted in an Independent Labour Party Republican unit and was sent to fight on the relatively quiet Aragon Front. He fought in Spain for six months before being badly wounded by a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs