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Education & Development

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...children were produced to accompany the 2004 series. We are pleased to be able to offer them to you as a set of free downloads... Play Families Float or Sink? Knickerbockerglory [PDF File] Download Play Families card (130 KB) [PDF File] Download Float or Sink? card (130 KB) [PDF File] Download Knickerbockerglory card (109 KB) What's In The Mind? Relaxation Storytelling...
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Activity 10 mins
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...Centre for Evidence-Based Policing (no date) state that an RCT is, ‘A research design intended to estimate the effects of a target program by’: a.Identifying a substantial number of people or other units of analysis, b.Selecting all units eligible for the target program and the RCT, c.Recording the identifying details of each eligible unit, d.Assigning some units...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...centre. The idea of ‘Clydebuilt’ serves to illustrate the importance of the city in equipping not only Britain itself, but also the far-flung reaches of the Empire with the ships, locomotives and heavy engineering commodities necessary to fuel economic expansion. Crucially, then, Glasgow's (‘local’) economic fortunes, as with those of many of the other ‘older’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Cuts in welfare were at the heart of George Osborne’s agenda coming into the present parliament in 2015. Two years later, not a single new measure affecting benefits was announced in this budget. Any new welfare savings have been formally ruled out in this parliament, with the proviso that if spending breaks...
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Article 5 mins
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...children and adolescents, in hospitals, clinics, assessment and treatment centres, education, social care settings, or within the home. Sometimes people with mental health problems face discrimination and stigma and, as a mental health nurse, a key part of your role would be to advocate for those that you work with. Watch Video 7 about mental health nursing produced by...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Innovation in health and social care: social and historical
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care: social and historical

...research into it. This is the focus of the first activity. Activity 1 Accidental discovery Watch the following video about the discovery of Penicillin, then answer the questions in the box below. NARRATOR Having been brought up on a farm in Scotland, scientist Alexander Fleming wasn't afraid of getting his hands dirty, examining nasty bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Selling Empire: Further resources
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Further resources

...Centre for Policy Research), https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/empire-marketing-board-1926-33-britains-failed-attempt-soft-trade-policy. Drawing on their ‘Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade, 1926-1933’, in European Review of Economic History, 25, pp. 780-805 Horton, Melanie. Empire Marketing Board Posters (Manchester: Scala, 2010). A small...
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Article 5 mins
Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out
Society, Politics & Law

Occupying Turin: refugees breathe life into abandoned buildings of Olympic village, but authorities want them out

...centres in Pozzallo, Sicily and the southern province of Ragusa, as a protest against the authorities’ failure to improve conditions. Centres are often overcrowded, unsanitary and provide little legal advice or options for activities. In other areas of Italy, EU efforts to reduce migrant intakes include increasing deportations from so-called “hotspots”, and in some...
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Article 10 mins