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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...religion, gender, profession or town of origin), and for these preconceptions to make it difficult for you to fit in with a new group of people. Being aware of how groups work can help you feel prepared and decide how to address these kinds of barriers...Week 6: Wider perspectives: 4 Student approaches to learning - It is time now to move on to the second theory. This one...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...religion and superstition, to psychology and medical explanations. Although it is now widely accepted that one of the first solutions to preventing or supporting a mental health problem is to talk about it, stigma often prevents people opening up about their problems. The ambition of policymakers is to revolutionise mental health care and to make it designed around the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...Religion - Because of the exclusion of Gaelic from government and most aspects of national public life, the Church was of great importance as one of the few national institutions where the language could be used in a high-register milieu. From the 17th century onwards, the Kirk made an effort to provide a Gaelic-speaking ministry for the Highlands, although a shortage of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...religion, think carefully about whether that is something that will align with the personal brand you want to promote. Activity 3 What could I post about? Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Even if you don’t plan to use Facebook, creating ideas for posts is a useful exercise. These ideas could also be used for blogs, work-place discussions with like-minded individuals, etc....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...religion or through a less formal, although significant, part of the cared-for person’s beliefs. It’s important to remember that palliative care is not confined to people with cancer, as is often believed. It might also be an approach that is used across all ages and a range of conditions, from respiratory disease to dementia. A key objective is to improve the quality...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...religion, culture and interests and they wanted a space away from adults where they could play with their identity through dressing up, could exchange views with others and could ‘rehearse having responsibility for looking after things’ (Jackson et al., 2008, p. 46). If you are interested, you could read an extract from Jackson et al., 2008...Week 2: Social identities...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...religion, essentially describing the differences and similarities between you and your colleagues. As workplace demographics become increasingly diverse, this can play a part in our career resilience. If we don’t take the time to understand our colleagues’ perspectives and experience, this can lead to conflict – and conflict in the workplace can have a negative...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...religion, politics, poetry and mountaineering. Alter ego @roland_jackson [Online]. Available at https://twitter.com/ ProfTyndall (Accessed 20 October 2016). Santer, B., Solomon, S., Ridley, D. et al. (2016) ‘Volcanic effects on climate’, Nature Climate Change, vol. 6, 3–4. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (2016) The Keeling Curve [Online]. Available at...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs