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Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...statistics show how common it is to experience a mental health problem while in employment. They also demonstrate that many people find it challenging to disclose this information to employers. How do we ensure that people with mental health problems can find and keep employment? Mind (2016) reports many barriers to keeping and finding work for individuals with a mental...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...statistic for the Earth’s atmosphere As a matter of comparison, if the density of the atmosphere at sea level did remain constant all the way up, what would be the height or thickness of the atmosphere to create the sea-level pressure? Give your answer in km to 3 significant figures. Solution From the fundamental law of hydrostatics cap p sub atm equals rho times g...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...Statistical tests are used to evaluate the probability that any apparent difference between the groups has occurred by chance. A result that is highly unlikely to have occurred by chance is said to be statistically significant, enabling a reasonably confident conclusion that the hypothesis has been confirmed. The same basic framework can also help determine whether or not...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...statistics Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (2015) Growth Dashboard shows the trends in a number of STEM occupational categories. It says that ‘in 2013, 32 per cent of vacancies were classified as skills shortage vacancies; an increase from 2011 levels’ (p. 32). On page 29 of the dashboard there is a breakdown of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes Data minimisation Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed Accuracy Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...statistics; however, insofar as social workers work with people who appear to be largely disadvantaged by such societal forces, understanding how these forces may affect individuals becomes a key concern for social work. This understanding then becomes integral to an approach that seeks to be anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive...An introduction to social work: 1.3...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...statistically significant). However, the important result is that the change from 10 per cent to 90 per cent relatedness does not produce the large increase in the priming effect observed in the 1 second condition. The small increase from 7 per cent to 9 per cent was not statistically significant. It can be concluded that participants were unable to guess in the brief...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...statistics office. Over that time, Ziegert, the estate agent, estimates that the city needs to build 20,000 new homes per year. The number of homes completed in 2015 was 10,722; over the three years before, the average was fewer than 7,000. This scarcity has helped drive recent price gains. According to Ziegert, average prices for prime property (the top 5 per cent of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs