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Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...adults become active again, mate, and start the return journey northwards, the females laying eggs on milkweed plants along the way. None will complete the return journey, and it will be their descendants that reach southern Canada again. Thanks to the work of thousands of citizen scientists who monitor the butterflies every year, more is being learned about the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...adult skill development. Find out more here cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Session 2: Getting to grips with...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...adults to little kids but in this respect it works if a toddler shouts I hate you mummy you don’t take it personally you don’t think the toddler really hates you and we adults act like that sometimes as well. We’re stressed, we’re unhappy, and we kind of go, nya, at someone when we’re unhappy. But it doesn’t mean that we’re actually that annoyed with that...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...adults and their families. ‘Out of the Blue’, a group of singers from Oxford University, released a single in 2014, Hips Don’t Lie – Charity Single – Shakira – Out of the Blue, with all the profits going to the charity. Out of the Blue Shakira medley The fantastic Out of the Blue have recorded a medley of Shakira songs and all proceeds from the sale of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...adult patients admitted to an acute medical ward in a Harare hospital over a three-month period (apart from one patient who did not agree to take part). Each patient was tested for HIV using a standard (and an accurate) blood-testing method. (In fact, 56% of the patients turned out to have an HIV infection according to these tests.) In addition, the patients were examined...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...adults. (Murray, 1994, p. 180) A greater number [of poor adults] are simply defeatist about work or unable to organize their personal lives to hold jobs consistently. (Mead, 1997, p. 12) … bureaucracy – unpopular though it is – increasingly must manage the lives of those who are seriously poor. (Mead, 1997, p. 14) Discussion Personal lives are regarded as the source...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...adult experiences of racism, misunderstanding and intimidation. I persisted with suicidal plans and attempts, and was severely depressed, with psychotic episodes of manifestations of my adoptive mother’s attempts to kill me as a child. The underlying requirement of the psychiatric system appeared to involve fully internalising the racism, to make me completely ill...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...Adult males who had a title to land could be selected for jury service in the sheriff and burgh courts. Tenants could be required to attend the barony courts. Through this system of administering justice, an attempt was being made to keep order, to provide access to and to dispense justice. At this time much of the population was illiterate and many did not have access to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs