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Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...statistics showing a threefold increase in the number of full-time equivalent teaching assistant posts in all mainstream schools in England since 1997 to a total of 170,000 in 2010.This represented 24% of the workforce in mainstream schools overall, and more specifically 32% of the workforce in mainstream nursery and primary schools. Blatchford et al. also found that by...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...statistical surveys in a number of other countries have also shown this inverse relationship between CV disease and water hardness, i.e. CV disease is more common in softer water areas. However, there is no evidence of a direct causative link between CV disease and soft water, but as a precaution standards have been set for water that has been artificially softened. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...statistics, the behaviour of judges or the sentencing of a convicted criminal in the news, books or newspapers, television programmes or films. Law is actually all around us; it is wide-ranging and governs all aspects of our lives. The law underpins simple day-to-day transactions from buying a bus ticket or a cup of coffee, to more complicated matters such as employment,...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...Statistics (ONS) splits assets into financial assets and non-financial assets (Social Trends, 2010). Financial assets are those assets which are not physical things and are held in order to produce a flow of income and/or a monetary gain. Examples are money held in a savings account (which pays interest) or share holdings (which usually pay dividends). By contrast,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...statistics: approximately half the size of Earth, rocky, round, orbits Saturn. Answer Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Figure 15 2. Vital statistics: approximately one-tenth the size of Earth, rocky, orbits the Sun, found in the distant region of the Solar System called the Kuiper Belt (like Eris). Answer Haumea, a dwarf planet. Although Haumea is rounded it is less...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...statistical studies of data on deaths from infection, which began in England in the 19th century. You will analyse two classic experiments from the history of infectious diseases to identify the key features of the scientific method of investigation. These are significant because the origins of public health and mass vaccination programmes can be traced back to these two...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...statistics about smoking affecting length of life, I took the article to be a fair description of the impact of smoking on health. On second reading, however, it seems that the figures themselves cannot be trusted. According to the doctor, they are ‘crude’ – which could mean inaccurate. This is a good example of where you can be misled by what appears to be the...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...statistics/english-housing-survey-2021-to-2022-second-homes-fact-sheet/english-housing-survey-2021-to-2022-second-homes-fact-sheet#:~:text=Households%20with%20second%20homes,-In%202021%2D22&text=Most%20of%20these%20second%20homes,100%2C000%20homes%20on%202010%2D11. (Accessed: 3 April 2024). Disney, R., Gosling, A. and Machin, S. (1995) ‘British Unions in Decline:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs