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Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...artificial sweeteners, and salt, that the World Health Organization recommends should not be advertised to children (see Creative good feelings about unhealthy food). This creates the impression that it is quite the norm for children to eat such foods frequently – when in fact the opposite is what’s recommended. Furthermore, these ads create powerful emotional...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to energy resources
Nature & Environment

An introduction to energy resources

...artificially because in practice the two are intimately linked): the land-based or terrestrial system in which carbon is exchanged between land plants and both the soil and the atmosphere; the marine system which exchanges carbon within the oceans and between the oceans and the atmosphere. Together they form the natural carbon cycle...Energy resources: An introduction to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...intelligibly with each other on the operation of this extraordinary gas.’ Davy instituted a loose reporting protocol, asking every volunteer to produce a short written description of their experience. Some subjects produced answers that were oblique but highly imaginative: one of the clinic patients answered ‘how do you feel?’ with ‘I feel like the sound of a...
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Article 5 mins
Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model
Health, Sports & Psychology

Everyone Can Learn to Coach! Coaching with the OSCAR Model

...intelligence.) Collaboration and facilitation – coaching is a reflective and collaborative process, with continuous discussion and negotiation between coach and coachee, facilitating positive changes in behaviour to meet the coachee’s goals (Lai and McDowall, 2014). The OSCAR model below will help. Qualities and Attitudes – Lai and McDowall (2014) looked across...
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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
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
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