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A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...statistic fell by half between 1956 and 1975. Religious education in schools continued, but it seems likely that this was less effective as a means of Christian socialisation than religious teaching in the home and in institutions, such as Sunday schools, directly connected with the church. Third, this period saw a great multiplication of the world-views accessible to...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...Statistics, 2017) and there are nearly three million lone parents with dependent children in the UK (Office for National Statistics, 2017). Government data from 2019 suggests that there are now 212,000 same sex families across the UK, an increase of 40 per cent registering as such since 2015. The number of same sex couples raising children has remained the same as in 2013...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...statistical calculations TABLE, which is used for generating tables of numbers. COMP is short for ‘computation’, and STAT is short for ‘statistics’. Comp mode is selected by using the key sequence (COMP). Mathematics modes There are two different ways in which mathematics can be input to and displayed on the calculator: Math mode, in which fractions are entered...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...statistics remain damning, despite Black players constituting over 30% of Premier League squads, only 5% of managers across England’s top four divisions are from Black backgrounds (Szymanski, (2022). The experiences of systemic barriers from lack of opportunity and covert discrimination to the ‘glass ceiling’ preventing progression resonate deeply. Recent...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...statistics. In fact there is a whole department of machine learning at Carnegie Mellon, if you can believe that within the school of Computer Science and it’s made of faculties from Computer Science and Statistics and what they really do is Statistical Machine Learning. Another example is that there are departments of statistics now at universities for instance Purdue...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet, England, 2020. Available at: https://digital.nhs.uk/ data-and-information/ publications/ statistical/ statistics-on-obesity-physical-activity-and-diet/ england-2020/ part-5-adult-physical-activity-copy (Accessed 23 March 2021). Public Health England (2014) Everybody active, every day: An evidence-based approach to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
OU Carbon Calculator FAQs
Nature & Environment

OU Carbon Calculator FAQs

...statistics for the most typical cases, then refines this level with further questions. The result is usually close to that obtained from real data. Your household Why count both adults and children in the household? The calculator gives its results in terms of your individual or personal emissions, both direct and indirect. However, household income and a much consumption...
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Article 5 mins
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...statistics and statistical concepts. There are many good books and online resources to help learn statistics, some focusing on particular domains (see the list of Further reading at the end of this week for suggestions). Sampling When can we make an inference about a larger set of data of which we have just a ‘sample’? Could we say the page lengths of the books on...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs