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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...account of what they all said. Esther Mary what were the main issues raised for you? Mary MacLeod I think that a great deal of the discussion among the children, and between the children and the teachers, was about bullying, and it’s very clear and has become clear that within secondary schools the best approach to tackling bullying within a school is from the children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...accountable to the Governing Body; this person is likely to have a major view and influence on the leadership and management structures that exist. The majority of headteachers will be non-teaching, although there are still small (often rural) schools, where headteachers with some teaching commitments will only have part of the week to exercise leadership and conduct...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...account our ability to digest different foods in different ways. Atwater’s numbers say that Tara Haelle can extract 8.9 calories per gram of fat in a plate of her favourite Tex-Mex refried beans; the modified table shows that, thanks to the indigestibility of some of the plant fibres in legumes, she only gets 8.3 calories per gram. Depending on the calorie-measuring...
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Video 5 mins
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...account of beliefs and actions. Strength of purpose and the ability to implement these values. Social work values are not then considered as a mechanistic adherence to rules and regulations but will involve the exploration of your personal value base and motivations to work with people who may be vulnerable or disadvantaged in some way. However, there are broad themes...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...accountable, it is the state which has a legal obligation for ‘due diligence’ to protect black and minority ethnic women and girls from honour based violence. Prevention has to be accompanied by protection and provision. Even action within communities hostile to patriarchy or the power base of its conservative male leadership, such as BME women and girls’ services...
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Article 10 mins
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...account opportunism in respect of property dealings within modern capitalist society. Opportunism thus represents negative, immoral or unethical aspects that arise under capitalism as the prevailing form of economic organisation in England and Wales. The second section will then develop this evaluation of equity further in terms of the contemporary economic context. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...account in it. It had become, by all causes, a national interest,--by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history,--but not a whit less considerable, because it was cheap, and of no account, like a baker's-shop. The best proof of its vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd,...
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Article 15 mins
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...account of his visit to the home of William Herschel, also a musician and composer, and his sister Caroline. The Herschels were to become the greatest astronomical observers of the time. On 15th June I went from Windsor to (Slough?) to Doctor Herschel where I saw the great telescope. It is 40 feet long and 5 feet in diameter. The machinery is very big, but so ingenious...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs