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Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...adult typically spends 25.3 hours online per week – that’s over a day a week online! In addition, adults now estimate they spend more time online when they are out and about, and rather than using a computer, around one in ten adults say they only use a smartphone to go online. So, if you do spend time online, it’s worth taking steps to ensure your own personal...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...Adults: The Nice Guideline on Treatment and Management – Updated Edition 2014, London, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Venables, E. (2017) The Mandy Case Study: The Psychiatrist’s View, Milton Keynes, The Open University. World Health Organization (WHO) (2004) ‘ICD-10’ [Online]. Available at apps.who.int/ classifications/ apps/ icd/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...adults, to pensioners, to children, across the spectrum, one of the key things that they can't do is become a full and active members of their society. NARRATOR Social scientists, since the days of Booth and Rowntree, have played an important role in measuring and documenting poverty. And over time, this has shifted people's understandings of poverty. The aim has been to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The insect hunters
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The insect hunters

...adult mammalian dentition and understand dental formulae recognise teleology and write down accounts of evolution that do not assume purpose or direction...Studying mammals: The insect hunters: 1 Meeting the insect eaters - As you work through this course you will come across boxes, like this one, which give you advice about the study skills that you will be developing as...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...adults and children. The first word you hear is ‘Wow!’ [TURBINE SPINNING] ADAM TWINE So here, out west, we’re on the farm on the Oxford and Wiltshire border. I farm here. This is our crop of barley at the back here – golden, blowing brightly in the breeze. LIZ ROTHSCHILD So I’m called Liz. This is Sue. Well, I’m sort of inevitably involved with the wind farm...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...adult gastroenterologist at the hospital [Walker-Smith 2003: 241].) Dr Wakefield seized the next day's headlines with his sensational recommendation that parents should reject the MMR immunisation and give their children each of the three components separately, 12 months apart (The Times, 27 February 1998, Daily Telegraph, 27 February 1998). This recommendation was not...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...adult athletes into the appropriate position might be appropriate if there is consent (Kerr et al, 2015). For example, it would be common practice to ask ‘is it OK if I move you into position?’ or similar. The following information on the NSPCC website offers guidelines for how physical contact between adults and children in sport can take place appropriately and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...Adult Learning Wales, Coleg Gwent and the NPTC Group of Colleges...Have you ever noticed how often you need maths skills in everyday life? This free course is an introduction to Level 1 Essential Skills in maths that’s designed to inspire you to improve your current maths skills and help you to remember any areas that you may have forgotten. Working through the examples...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs