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Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...become the focus. What are the key requirements for a diagnosis of ADHD? Discussion Difficulties must be present at home and at school. It is perhaps not surprising that many individuals with ADHD will also have problems related to social functioning (Cantwell, 1996; Wehmeier et al., 2010). Difficulties with social interactions, both with peers and family members (Flicek,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...become overly concerned as to what children cannot do, rather than noting and praising what they can do at any point in time. Sociocultural perspectives Mia records how Elodie likes her to participate when she’s playing in her doll’s house. Elodie wants her mother to make suggestions, but, you will have noticed, Mia recognises that Elodie also has ‘her own agenda on...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...becoming more engaged in industrial action was in 1988, when there were three separate strikes over the course of the year involving nurses. The first was in January with a hundred nurses going on strike in Lothian and Lanarkshire over the UK Conservative Government of Margaret Thatcher instructing Scottish Health Boards, via the then Secretary of State for Scotland,...
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Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...become very, very important. I think one of the things that I think I've really, really drawn on when as a teenager I used to go to little drama classes, we used to learn speeches. So I was always regularly learning twenty lines from Shakespeare or learning a speech from Waiting for Godot or whatever, and I think actually just instead of reading plays on the page, having...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...become more gender diverse, progress had stalled with women’s representation at board level averaging around 30%. Furthermore, the number of women in senior leadership roles below board level had declined (Figure 1). It argued that organisations were paying little attention to creating a sustainable pipeline of female leadership talent. [graph showing women in senior...
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Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...become camps lose many of their leaves. Bats regulate their body temperature, partly by behavioural means. Huddling together in groups should in theory reduce the rate of heat loss in cooler conditions, and decrease the rate of warming when it's very hot. In both circumstances, the surface area that each individual exposes is lessened by contact [see p. 224], though this...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...becomes why such different labour markets exist and why particular types of workers are restricted in their access to the better jobs in the primary labour markets. This course also provides good examples of how different theoretical perspectives lead to different policy prescriptions. Neoclassical economists believe that making the world more like the characteristics of...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...become part of the sky. The sky is otherwise empty. A simple question of ‘place’ for a child, in this context, introduces ideas of visual and intellectual perspective. Let’s start building another kind of house: The house that Jack or Jill might build We know that poems are made of lines and lines need line- breaks … You’ll keep coming back to the building works...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs