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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...de Janeiro, Brazil, where heavy rain caused fatal mudslides and flooding in January 2010. (b) A sign in Rawnsley Park Station, South Australia, rendered unnecessary by the 2007–08 drought . Extreme weather events also have indirect impacts. These might be, for example, reduced agricultural yields and social instability such as violent crime and mass migration (Edwards...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...de Medicine do Esporte, 17(2), pp. 97–101. Teixeira, R.V., Colla, C., Subruzzi, G., Mallman, A. and Paiva, L.L. (2018) ‘Prevalence of urinary incontinence in female athletes: a systematic review with meta-analysis’, International Urogynecology Journal, 29, pp. 197–204...Session 4: Pelvic floor muscles: out of sight and often overlooked: Acknowledgements - This...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...De Stobbeleir (2022) quip: ‘functioning optimally in a hybrid working environment requires more than just good Wi-Fi and an ergonomic office chair at home’. Leaders must recognise that different skills will be needed to support their employees and managers. Hybrid meetings – to build bridges between those in the office and those working at home – are tricky;...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...de-code it. BOY [02.07] Er this purply road is the motorway GUY [02.12] Ok, yeah motorway, so M.way. Anything else BOY 2 [02.17] Yeah, there’s some er thick blue lines M1 or the A6… GUY [02.22] Have a close look at it again BOY 2 Ah, that’s a river is it GUY [02.26] River, yeah, well done. Red line running North-South. What’s that? GIRL [02.33] A521 GUY Which is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...de la Serre, a French army captain, visited the school and described his system of 12 raised dots representing sounds which could be combined to form words. Braille experimented with Barbier’s system and, by the time he was 20, he had simplified it so that each letter of the alphabet could be represented by six raised dots arranged in three rows. The dots are precisely...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding depression and anxiety
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...de-silencing’ mechanisms are examples of epigenetic mechanisms. The word ‘epigenetic’ means ‘above or beyond genes’ and is used to refer to the way the expression of genes can be altered as described above. The 5-HTT gene codes for the serotonin transporter protein – that is, it provides cells with the ‘instructions’ needed to make the protein. As a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...de Loutherbourg, published in 1784 as the frontispiece to Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards by Edward Jones. From: The remaking of Wales in the eighteenth century remaking_31.pdf695.7 KB PDF document Image 31: Druidical Remains in Anglesey, an engraving by J.Smith in William Sotheby’s A Tour Through Parts of Wales, 1794 From: The remaking of Wales in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...de Roock, R., Ferguson, R., Gaved, M., Herodotou, C., Koh, E., Kukulska-Hulme, A., Looi, C-K., McAndrew, P., Rienties, B., Weller, M., Wong, L. H. (2016) Innovating Pedagogy 2016 [Online], Milton Keynes, The Open University. Available at https://iet.open.ac.uk/ file/ innovating_pedagogy_2016.pdf (Accessed 6 June 2018)...Week 5 Developing your learning design: Further...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs