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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...division is, of course, generated by factors other than the housing system, but it is coming to be most vividly expressed through housing differences and it is reproduced through tenure-based inequalities. However it is defined, the underclass appears to be concentrated in the least desirable parts of the council housing sector. State rental has today become associated...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Division of the British Psychological Society (2011) has produced Good Practice Guidelines on the Use of Psychological Formulation. Section 9 of the document provides a useful overview of what is involved; part of this section is reproduced below. ‘The following principles of psychological formulation in clinical psychology are widely accepted: it is grounded in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...division of a manager’s job into these separate elements remains a powerful idea, although now we would refer to ‘commanding’ as leading...Managing and managing people: 2 What is managerial effectiveness? - There are no absolute measures of managerial effectiveness. Organisations have aims and objectives, and managers are effective when they help their organisation...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...division of responsibilities is not fixed, and it has changed several times since devolution began in 1999. Office for the Advocate General for Scotland (2015). [The Scotland Act 2016 - new powers for Scotland] Figure 6 The Scotland Act 2016 - new powers for Scotland Activity 1 Reserved or Devolved? Timing: Allow about 20 minutes This Activity is designed to provide you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...division is made may differ from one observer to another and will crucially depend on the relative motion of the observers. A very rough attempt at representing diagrammatically this change of attitude towards space and time is shown in Figure 25. Before Einstein introduced special relativity, the phrase 'the whole of space at a particular time' was thought to have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...division of the organisation, which in itself could cause retrieval issues...Using data to aid organisational change: 4.3 Negotiating access - The importance of negotiating access to your main stakeholders and the importance of ‘gatekeepers’, i.e. ‘influential individuals’ (Blaxter et al., 2013: 159), cannot be underestimated. People who stand between you and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...division of the sexes; it was not dependent upon any empirical facts. … Thus it is that no group ever sets itself up as the One without at once setting up the Other over against itself (p. xxii–xxiii). Du Beauvoir noted that identifying the other was usually about the majority imposing ‘its rule upon the minority’ (p. xxiv). She then went on to question this...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...Divisional Court held that he could not be convicted because, giving the words in the statute a tight literal meaning, Mr Bell had not offered the knives for sale. In the law of contract, placing something in a shop window is not technically an offer for sale; it is merely an invitation to treat. It is the customer who makes an offer to the shop when he proffers money for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs