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From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...study time each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study. You will get plenty of opportunities as the course progresses to reflect on the arguments and examples that are presented and there are weekly quizzes to help bring your learning together. After...
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...study in Mathematics...Surfaces: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain the terms surface, surface in space, disc-like neighbourhood and half-disc-like neighbourhood explain the terms n-fold torus, torus with n holes, Möbius band and Klein bottle explain what is meant by the boundary of a surface, and determine the boundary number...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand the needs and experiences of people with a learning disability who are getting older, including people who may at times display behaviours that challenge others describe the components of excellent care for people who are getting older with a learning disability apply the components of excellent care to the people...
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...skills, and his ability to negotiate a tough deal. Don Moore, from the UC BerkleyHaas School Of Business, isn't sure that the man matches the myth: Even on the campaign trail, we have seen obvious negotiation failures. By one estimate, the Trump campaign paid three times what the Sanders campaign did to run commercials during the same time slots on the same stations....
Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’
Health, Sports & Psychology

Five ways you can tell if your child is ‘normal’

...skills’, may find making and maintaining friends really tough, and they may struggle with numeracy, but what are their strengths? Testing and formal feedback on your child’s performance can become deficit focused. It is useful when thinking about whether your child is normal to focus on their strengths. This can help ensure the ‘fullest possible picture’, because...
Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...skills in analytical judgement. What we know about social work writing Writing occupies a huge amount of time in social work. The WiSP project explored exactly how much time social workers thought they spent and how much time they actually spent engaged in writing while at work. The image below shows that 40% of social workers said that they spent more than 70% of their...
Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...skills and knowledge of the enslaved. Moreover, it uncovers the later transference and adoption of the traditional African sport and pastime, the art of swimming and diving. This legacy has been absorbed into British society and is now established as a popular British leisure pastime and a traditional, cultural act in contemporary Britain. The deconstruction of historical...
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the questions philosophers of race investigate begin to evaluate the position that race is about ancestry and the position that race is about power understand why different definitions of ‘racism’ affect how people identify and respond to racism assess arguments for and against the moral acceptability of...