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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...multiple re-registrations. They may be dismissed as chaotic manifestations of disorderly lives or they may constitute resistance. Only research about intent and motivation would be able to illuminate this issue further. Such actions carry particular meaning amongst minority ethnic groups. The evaluation study of NDLP by Dawson et al. (2000) marks a sharp differentiation...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...Multiple Victimization’, in M. Maguire and J. Porting, eds., Victims of Crime: A New Deal? Milton Keynes: Open University Press. Home Office (1981), Racial Attacks: Report of a Home Office Study. London: Home Office. — (1989c), The Response to Racial Attacks and Harassment: Guidance for the Statutory Agencies: Report of the Inter-Departmental Racial Attacks Group....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...multiple identities that derive not only from place and ethnicity, but also from movements between different places, from historical relationships, as well as from religion, gender, class and so on. Victor's relationship to being ‘British’ illustrates this idea of diasporic citizenship. For him, because of British colonial history, the UK was an ‘imagined home’....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...multiple areas, e.g. how science works in the real world. Finally, the output involves assessment that demonstrates competence in preparation for future education or employment. [Mind map showing the learning process and measures needed for a competency-based curriculum. Full description in ‘Long description’ link below.] Figure 2 The key aspects of a competency-based...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...Multiple usages are current and can be very confusing. ‘Affect’ is another term for ‘mood’, so one term often used is ‘affective disorders’ which simply refers to ‘mood disorders’. Depression (also known as major depression or MD) is the most commonly occurring of the set of mood disorders known as affective disorders. A set of disorders that are clearly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What can philosophy tell us about race?
History & The Arts

What can philosophy tell us about race?

...multiple boxes, or the box for ‘White’. Alternative rules for the relationship between ancestry and race have been in operation in different places at various times. For example, in the Dutch East Indies, children of Dutch men and Asian women were counted as Dutch. There are also systems where ‘intermediate’ or mixed racial categories are formally recognised as...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...multiplicity of habitats depends in part on moisture levels. The wettest areas are the waterways, ditches, and ponds. These contain aquatic plant species like water lilies and pond weeds.Adjacent to these areas are shallow waters which are suitable for reeds. In areas where these waters dry in summer, fields of sedge dominate. Dryer again are the fen meadows, which are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...multiple thousands of experiments, that if you add CO2 to the air, you increase the growth rate of plants. What’s changed in the last few years, and people are not picking up on, is that we’ve got the satellite data to prove that this is happening. Several different data sets, the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index is one of them, showing that we’ve got a...
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