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Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness
Education & Development

Supporting young trans people’s rights to health and happiness

...intelligence’. Gillick competence came about through a case about whether teenagers should be allowed access to contraception even without their parents’ consent. It protects young people’s rights to decide what happens to their own bodies, especially to their own reproductive decisions – especially vital for children living in abusive family situations. It is...
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Article 10 mins
Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black lives matter in sport too: what is the BAME experience of sport in the UK?

...intelligence are still hindering their progress once their career finishes. Otherwise why the lack of progress? Especially when a new generation of former players, such as Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard are not including any of their BAME ex-colleagues as part of their coaching team? In other sports such as rugby union, rugby league, cricket and basketball there is a...
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Article 15 mins
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...artificial heart, am I dead? If you are on a life-support machine, are you dead? Is a failure to sustain independent life a reasonable definition of death? No, otherwise we would all be ‘dead’ in the nine months before birth. The issue becomes murkier when we consider those trapped in the twilight worlds between normal life and death – from those who slip in and out...
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Article 15 mins
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...intelligence. Instead, the distinction between yesterday’s and today’s students when they first set foot on college campuses rests in their educational backgrounds, analytical thinking, reading abilities, willingness to work, and their attitudes concerning the educational process. In short, they differ in terms of their readiness for college. Second, I am focusing on...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...intelligent’ client, such as a mobile app. This client might include a facility to extract figures from your bank statements and to perform whatever calculations you require. Such a client might also create bar or pie charts that display your income and expenditure across different categories that you define. The web browser client in the example of the online bank...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...artificial impositions, set up really for the written language, which have then been partially imposed on spoken styles as well. But the living form of the language really doesn’t conform to these things at all, and knowing these rules of written English is partly just a matter of showing off the fact that you’ve had a ‘good education.’ History of language James...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...intelligence. The interviews investigated issues such as living circumstances, employment, relationships, leisure activities and offending behaviour. When the boys were at school, their teachers also filled out questionnaires about their behaviour and school attainment; and their peers were asked about issues such as popularity, risk-taking behaviour and honesty. When the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the EU give up on 'ever closer' union?

...intelligence-sharing mechanisms or the use of battlegroups, not to mention a joint EU army. The third is that focusing on a “practical union” will hardly address the institutional deficits provoking current dysfunctionalities in the economic union, the issues around immigration or stronger security and defence. There is thus a risk of derailing the whole process...
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Article 10 mins