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Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...Law – the body responsible for all aspects of welfare. There was what historians call a ‘mixed economy of care’ – patients could either pay for the services of practitioners, or apply for free care from charities or local government agencies. The end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries saw a huge expansion in the availability of outpatient...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...laws. Some naturalists also make a further assumption. They assume that natural phenomena form a hierarchy and that higher-level ones can be explained by reference to more basic ones, right down to the level of chemistry and physics. Reproduction, for example, counts as a high-level phenomenon, which can be explained in terms of more basic genetic and cellular processes,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...law, which states that at a constant temperature (k), an increase in pressure (P) causes a proportional decrease in volume (V). Watch Boyle’s law in action in Video 7 below. (Make sure to open the link in a new window/tab so you can easily navigate back to this page.) Link to Video 7 – The effect of increasing pressure on volume. Question 2 Increasing pressure Select...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you trust forensic science in the criminal justice system?

...Law, Probability and Risk. Roux, C., Bucht, R., Crispino, F., De Forest, P., Lennard, C., Margot, P., Miranda, M. D., NicDaeid, N., Ribaux, O., Ross, A., & Willis, S. (2022) The Sydney declaration: Revisiting the essence of forensic science through its fundamental principles. Forensic Science International, 332, 111182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111182...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...law since 1534, and the national churches of Wales and Scotland still have significant political and popular influence in their respective areas. The Christian religion underpins much of Britain’s legal and cultural assumptions. The Church of England exerts influence on legislation through the ‘Lords Spiritual’, 26 bishops who sit in the House of Lords. Where...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...law’) was often specific to a particular sanctuary or particular group of worshippers and, importantly, never sought to set out religious beliefs. As such, this type of evidence cannot tell you about the entire history of a particular cult and its belief system, but it can offer insight into important elements of it, especially relating to its administration. Activity 5...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...law). The important thing is to understand that ‘religion’ or ‘religious’ can refer to different things, so there is no one measure of religious change. With that in mind, you will now read about some of the changes that were happening in different religions during the 1960s...A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s: 2 Crisis and innovation...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...law, and the other version was that this is abnormal, to be discouraged in every possible way and therefore certainly not to be encouraged as it was assumed by giving people the same rights within the law. And I think it's very easy to see that there was a struggle going on, and I think what's important is to recognise that those struggles are going on when there seems to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr