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Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...trouble before, that they are the main carer for children, or that they are addressing the problems which led them to offend. MH: For example, they might be getting treatment for an addiction. CLD: Exactly. So the court is given a lot of information about the offence, the defendant, and the possible sentences. What does it do with that information? MH: It uses it to work...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Effective writing in professional social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Effective writing in professional social work practice

...trouble spots or issues around style? LISA LEWIS I think one of the things that can happen in terms of description is that, sometimes, people can focus too much on it. And the language that is used can be quite flowery. And that can be really, really problematic for the reader in various different social work reports. THERESA LILLIS Are there any examples of this kind of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...troubling issues and personal positions. The people in these videos seemed to show a range of capacities, including a willingness to collaborate and share ideas, a capacity to take risks and put themselves in the public spotlight, as well as to explore their own identity, understandings and life histories, and to be open to issues which may be beyond their experience. You...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Psychology around the world
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychology around the world

...trouble at school or work. The memory you described in Activity 2 is an autobiographical memory. In individualist cultures, autobiographical memories tend to focus on oneself as the lead and often aren’t particularly related to other people; the person describing the memory is the central character. This might include describing a personal achievement or the emotions...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...troubled times and tyrannical emperors. His history of Rome is now incomplete, and the book which covers Hadrian (Book 69) is a summary produced by a later author (Xiphilinus). Dio Cassius would have been dependent on earlier written sources for his history of Hadrian, but the nature of these is not known. Then read the following: Primary Source 1: SHA, Hadrian 9; 11; 13;...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...troubles. [Described image] Figure 4 Weighing the gender balance Indeed, to the casual British viewer Batmanghelidjh might well cast something of a counter-cultural leader-figure. For one, she is open in displaying her affection to staff and clients. She expresses her ‘love’ of certain clients and in fact love was taken as being a core value of Kids Company. As...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...trouble is, Dickens is too familiar. Most readers will have heard of the author, if not the novel, and many will have come across some other version of it, as a film, a television serial, a tape recording, a school text, a children's book – or, as Virginia Woolf said, as one of those stories like Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe or Grimms' Fairy Tales, communicated by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...trouble. Obviously, you haven't had much chance to develop a ‘broad knowledge and understanding’ quite yet, but you've made a start, and we hope that you came away from the introduction having learned and understood some new things about the Classical world. Similarly, you might not have had much chance to develop your powers of critical examination, but you were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs