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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Student Loans Company has become a major lender. Then there’s the high-cost credit market aimed mostly at people on low incomes. They provide high risk, unsecured lending to customers who have limited or no access to mainstream credit. As a reflection of this, the cost of credit is steep. Such lenders include payday lenders. Borrowing money can be arranged quickly via...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Motivation and factors affecting motivation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Motivation and factors affecting motivation

...becoming a Premier footballer, as he was rejected initially by the Arsenal Academy and then sold by Arsenal after two appearances. He overcame this by dropping down a league and then working hard to gain promotion with Birmingham City. Thirdly, the largest obstacle was his cardiac arrest due to a congenital heart condition. Anyone who has had to retire from the sport they...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...become miniatures of an exceptionally concentrated kind. Their characteristic distillation of the emotional essence of a poem illustrates Romanticism at its most intimate. Schubert's Lieder, once they became widely known, influenced succeeding generations of songwriters through to the present day. A selection of Schubert's settings of Goethe's poems is discussed in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...become a label that unhelpfully ‘sticks’ to people, prejudicing how they are treated by services and limiting the opportunities available to them. As Ben highlighted in the example he gave from his own practice, practitioners need to engage with the person and their needs and take a reflective and critical perspective with regards to labels that have been previously...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...become institutions as they become established and recognised as standing for something more than themselves; they come to embody and express important social norms and values. This can perhaps be seen most obviously in a global context, with organisations such as the World Bank or the United Nations. But it is no less true at a local level where, for example, a school...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...becomes the most interesting aspect of the work. According to Foucault, critics invent a variable idea of an author and of authorship that depends entirely upon their own preconceptions. An important contribution by Foucault is what he calls the ‘discourse’ surrounding an author. Foucault developed the idea of a ‘discursive formation’ as an alternative to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...become elevated to a legal significance such that governments must honour them and ensure that their domestic laws respect these rights even though this may lead to the interests of a minority being upheld against the views of a majority of the population. The manner in which rights can become law is discussed in Part C, with particular reference to how English law has...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Exploring books for children: words and pictures
History & The Arts

Exploring books for children: words and pictures

...become particularly important in the context of books for children. As anyone who has watched a small child ‘reading’ a picture book will know, young children are able to derive a great deal of meaning and pleasure from the activity, even when they cannot yet decode the letters and words. They are able to make connections between the pictures and the words of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs