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Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...statistics. The article below provides some of these details in relation to period poverty. Read the article and then answer the questions that follow: Ending period poverty: Scotland’s plan for free menstrual products shatters taboos and leads a global movement. Select the answer for Question 1a here What is the estimated average a woman in the United Kingdom will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...Statistical Institute, People’s University of China and the College de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to...
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Audio 5 mins
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...statistics like these from newspaper surveys, cannot tell us why children responded in such large numbers to this particular book, and not others. To begin to get at this kind of information, we need now to turn to study in detail the comments of individual readers as recorded in RED...History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...statistics, alleging selection bias and has written ‘The Spirit Level Delusion’ – you can see it here. The Spirit Level revisited...Week 1: What do we mean by a lottery of birth?: 8 The global picture - To end this week, you will read a statement from the UN, who highlighted why it is vital to remain focused on personal, real lives when thinking about the changing,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...statistical data appears to provide strong justification for the ‘othering’, but the statistics could just as easily be presented to emphasise that only a relatively small minority of Muslims express any sympathy for ‘jihadists’. This reinforces the studies cited by Pantazis and Pemberton, which found that coverage of Muslims/Islam was very often framed in terms...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...statistics which provide some basic information. Activity 2 Examine Table 1 carefully. Make notes on what you can gather about participation, dropout and completion, and about differences between the groups identified. As you do so, think about the kinds of explanations you would expect to find for the differences between social groups in patterns of participation and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...Statistics (2017) state ‘in 2017, 21.7% of those who graduated before 1992 were overeducated, whereas the corresponding figure for those who graduated in 2007 or later was 34.2%’. These figures indicate that the population is becoming educated to a higher level as time progresses. Henseke et al. (2018) indicate that, since 2006, in Britain generic work-based skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...Statistics (ONS) by following the link below which you should open in a new tab. Remember with life expectancy you may well live longer than the average. For example, the average life expectancy for a woman aged 65 today is 88 years, but she has a 1 in 4 chance of living to 94, and more than a 1 in 20 chance of celebrating her 100th birthday. So it is best to be cautious...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs