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Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...de Janiero to act on this issue, and made their first, tentative agreement five years later at Kyoto. Box 3 indicates some of the likely impacts of climate change...Working with our environment: an introduction: 4.6 Global climate change continued - Box 3: Some impacts of global climate change Record global temperatures The global mean surface temperature of our planet...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...de facto city state even if the institutional arrangements are lagging behind. And he argues that it will become increasingly necessary to recognise this. For good measure, even as he identifies London’s special status, he suggest that the tax raised in London provides a crucial underpinning for social spending elsewhere in the UK. In other words, he argues that money...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...de mer. And it was absolutely beautiful overlooking the sea in Cascais. We had a discussion, and we said, Sam, do you want to keep doing triathlons, or would you prefer to get another job? And his answer was, definitely triathlons, Dad. And then we made another decision. Is this a bucket list, or can he become a professional? Can he become an elite triathlete? And then I...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...De-nol®) peptic ulcer Ti oxide sunblock V complex diabetes Fe Na2[Fe(CN)5(NO)].2H2O hypertension Cu histidine complex Menkes disease Zn oxide sunblock oxide with 0.5% Fe2O3 (calamine lotion) antimicrobial agent Y 90Y complex bone and liver cancer Zr Zr(IV) glycinate antiperspirant Ru Ru(III) complex cancer parasitic disease Ag silver sulfadiazine burns Ag/Hg amalgam...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...de-motivating dependency of welfare, promoting self-help and volunteerism...Session 3: Understanding social divisions and diversity: 3.3 Asset-based approaches to community development - [This is a photograph of a group of people working in a garden.] Figure 13 Whatever the current policy discourse, identifying the assets present in communities and working to build on...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...de Korne, H. (2012) Learning first: a research agenda for improving learning in low-income countries. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. UNESCO (1998) World Education Report, Paris: UNESCO. Wiggins, G. and McTighe, J. (2005) Understanding by design, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development,...Global perspectives on primary...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...de Groot, R. S. and Opdam, P. (2014) ‘Ecosystem services as a contested concept: a synthesis of critique and counter-arguments’, Conservation Letters, 17 February [Online]. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12091 (Accessed 17 July 2014). Senge, P. M., Smith, B., Kruschwitz, N., Laur, J. and Schley, S. (2008) The Necessary Revolution, New York, NY, Doubleday....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...de Desarrollo Humano Oportunidades (Human Development Opportunities Programme, referred to as Oportunidades) is an anti-poverty initiative aimed at indigenous women in a remote mountain area in northern Mexico. Previous evaluations confirmed that indigenous people were participating effectively but it was unclear that the project was succeeding in its objectives of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs