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Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...Determining whether a wood is ancient is like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. Old maps and documents may provide strong evidence, as can the wood's name, but there are also clues in the wood itself. Historical features (e.g. medieval wood banks, old coppice stools and remnant field boundaries) tell of past land use, and the species that are found in the wood may also...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...determine the difference between cancerous and normal cells using nuclear magnetic resonance, a method known as an MRI (Dawson, 2013). These are just some of the innovations that have helped to transform millions of lives. The next activity gives you an opportunity to find and explore other great discoveries that have pioneered and transformed the health of many people....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...determined investment, these two vertical gaps are equal at an income level of £600, so at this income level planned saving = planned investment. We have therefore illustrated an economy in equilibrium at an income level of £600. Note that the AD line (C + I) crosses the 45-degree line at an income level of £600. Since at any point on the 45-degree line AD = Y, we can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...determine its focus, and whether a different approach is needed. Traditional criminology has focused on the causes of crime, and on how crime patterns are measured, predicted or should be dealt with or reduced through policy measures. Over the last 50 years or so, though, critical perspectives have developed and become more prominent in criminology, and they have made...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...determination to help the Jews, enabled a scheme of rescue without parallel to be implemented at that time. The 20,000 Jewish women were treated in a variety of ways, including the extremes of sympathy and naked exploitation. (Kushner, 1994, p. 114) More generally, it has been argued that: ‘The 1951 UN Convention … and the 1967 Protocol … [have been] interpreted...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...determinant of their actions is the commands of the authority figure...Psychological research, obedience and ethics: 1.4 Summary - Milgram found that most people would administer potentially lethal levels of shock to another human being, just because they were told to do so by an authority figure. The use of a controlled experimental procedure enabled Milgram to explore...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...determine whether respondents were telling the truth when completing the EPQ, Eysenck included a Lie (L) scale. In the L scale, there are items that try to determine whether the respondent is giving the socially desired response or telling the truth. For example, a question on the L scale could be something like ‘I always try not to be rude to people’. A high score on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...determined by the Bank of England and consists of notes and reserves. And in normal times at least, notes and reserves are determined by the amount of notes that people want to hold or need for their transactions and the amount of notes and reserves that banks want to hold given the level of interest rates in the economy. It is not chosen or fixed by the central bank as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs