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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...Statistics The columns all have clear headings, so the reader can instantly see what the table is presenting. It has a title (Table 3 Population …), also called a table caption, that describes the table’s contents. It also shows where the data came from, which can help readers judge the trustworthiness of the evidence. These are all critical elements to presenting a...
Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...Statistics, Census 2021. Available at: https://census.gov.uk/ (Accessed 26 July 2024). Oluo, I. (2018) So you want to talk about race?. New York: Seal Press. Available at: https://www.cipd.co.uk/knowledge/fundamentals/relations/diversity/conversations-race-work (Accessed 26 July 2024). Pratchett, T. (1987) Mort. New York, NY: New American Library. Segal, E.A. (2021) Does...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...statistics above demonstrate, child labour makes a major contribution to global production. It has also been heavily implicated in the criticisms of the activities of MNCs, which have been accused of exploiting child labour in their production chains (Naomi Klein No Logo , and other anti-globalisation publications). In addition, of course, child labour – if in a mild...
An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)
Education & Development

An introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

...statistics, chemistry, philosophy. This is not just about online courseware. It's really revolutionising how we think about learning, and how we think about teaching. We make learning environments, and learning environments include what a student might do with the computer. Speaker 1 Worrying is discouraging. Speaker 2 Worrying is discouraging. Candace Thille But it also...
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...statistical data demonstrate an awareness of a range of techniques in linguistics for the analysis of data including those related to corpora...Exploring the English language: 1 Word classes - Activity 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Look at an extract from An A to Z of English by clicking on the video clip below. In this extract, poet Michael Rosen acts out a confusing...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, produced by the American Psychiatric Association. The ICD-10 is the tenth edition of the handbook for International Classification of Diseases, produced by the World Health Organization (2004) and covers mental disorders in Chapter V. You will see how this handbook describes schizophrenia later in this course. Both manuals take a...
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...statistics. [Described image] Figure 4 The UK carbon footprint: GHG emissions associated with consumption 1997 to 2013, including emissions embedded in imports but not exports (total = 1050 million tonnes CO2e in 2013) (DEFRA, 2016) Study note: Stacked bar charts Figure 4 is a bar chart, another way of showing the breakdown of numerical information. This is a...
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...statistics since ‘expected return’ and ‘mean return’ are the same thing. The expected return method is very much applicable and useful in finance – for instance, in your study of portfolio theory. An important use for expected return is when considering avoidable risk: that is, risk to which the organisation can choose whether or not to be exposed. The simplest...