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Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...de France. 1968 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issues a list of banned substances. First ever testing at Mexico City Olympics results in Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a member of the Swedish modern pentathlon team, being stripped of his bronze medal. 1972 Blood doping method is invented in Sweden: removing blood, increasing the concentration of red blood cells in a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...Table 1 or a mindmap, under the most appropriate headings. Table 1 Modes of creativity Creativity (as in behaving creatively) Creative teaching (as in teaching to support creative development) Teaching creatively (as in using your own creativity to develop lessons that interest and motivate pupils) Creative learning (as in learning to be creative and learning in creative...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...Table 1 below you will see a more detailed account of the characteristics of each of the learning 'types' identified by Honey and Mumford. Table 1 Learning styles: strengths and weaknesses LEARNING STYLE STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES Activist Flexible and open-minded. Happy to have a go. Happy to be exposed to new situations. Optimistic about anything new and therefore unlikely to...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...table. Start with two million. Answer Millions Hundred Thousands Ten Thousands Thousands Hundreds Tens Units 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 9 9 5 Now look at the numbers from the left. Both numbers have a 2 in the millions column, so move to the next place. The first number has a 0 in the next column (i.e. hundred thousands) whereas the second number has a 2. So the second number...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...Table 1. In Round 1, the change in income is equal to the fiscal stimulus of £300 million. Round 2 then depends on how much of this income is spent. Table 1 Direct and indirect impacts of a fiscal stimulus ROUND CHANGE IN INCOME (£ M) CUMULATIVE CHANGE IN INCOME (£ M) 1 300.00 300.00 2 150.00 450.00 3 75.00 525.00 4 37.50 562.50 5 18.75 581.25 6 9.38 590.63 7 4.69...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...de-skilling by having higher protections and investment in skills development. This security includes a higher percentage of flexible workers that are represented by Dutch trade unions, including new unions designed specifically for self-employed workers. Can we go Dutch? With a £22 billion efficiency challenge and “restructuring fatigue” within health and social...
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Article 5 mins
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...De Niro. But it was The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat that became his signature book. It was a series of case studies, that wouldn’t seem particularly unusual to most neurologists, but which astounded the general public. A sailor whose amnesia leads him to think he is constantly living in 1945, a woman who loses her ability to know where her limbs are, and a man...
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Review: Europe Reset
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Europe Reset

...de facto terms, undercutting national accountability. The author dismisses the traditional measures suggested to address this problem. For instance, empowering the European Parliament will not work, he argues, because it is divided along simplistic pro- and anti-integration lines, and lacks legitimacy with citizens. Indeed, he accurately points out that the EU already has...
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Article 5 mins