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Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...out that their child’s pain is not going away, so they need to be encouraged to speak up. Practitioners want to help, but if they don’t know a child is in pain, they can’t do anything about it. Lastly, it’s important to take an individual approach to both the child and their family. Talking and listening to each child and finding out about their experience,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...out in the margins of society, just as they too were living in a marginalised community. Political events too, sparked reactions. The decision in 1936 of the American Congress to pay a bonus to veterans of the First World War evoked a range of responses, many focusing on unfairness and inequality, while the bombing of Pearl Harbour in the Second World War was likewise a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...out of the experience if you can communicate effectively with people. In this short course you will begin to develop your reading and listening skills in French and learn to speak and write the language to communicate in everyday situations. You will acquire a knowledge of the basic structures of French along with key vocabulary to meet and greet people and to talk about...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intermediate French: Holiday plans
Languages

Intermediate French: Holiday plans

...out a little about the history of holiday-making in France, we hear present-day holiday-makers describing the advantages and disadvantages of a popular beach. A number of people then explain how much holiday they take and when they can take it. Finally we explore current trends and investigate how popular foreign holidays are among the French. The video was shot partly in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...out more about what the course involves. SWOT is a framework for analysing business cases. It includes the key concepts of: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Using this framework enables you to carefully categorise the internal and external factors influencing a business so you can obtain an overview of how well it's functioning at a particular point in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...out on paper or on screens. They are portable and usable on a variety of devices. Discussion Digital documents can be copied an infinite amount of times without damaging the original and without loss of quality to the copies. By contrast, copying material documents is either damaging to the original or produces lower-quality copies, or both. Discussion Digital documents...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...out for a good time, but women, older people are coming back into the city centre. Of all the people arrested because of CCTV or where CCTV has been used in evidence and that number far exceed four hundred at the last count, only on two occasions have people pleaded not guilty. The Crown Prosecution Service inform us that the saving to the criminal justice system must run...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...out of it altogether, and people will forget we ever existed. (Mitford, 1949 [1945], pp. 186–7) So said Linda, chief protagonist in Nancy Mitford’s bestselling and semi-autobiographical novel The Pursuit of Love, published at the end of the Second World War in 1945. It is likely that Linda’s reflections, made while taking shelter from the war on her family’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs