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Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...code red for humanity’ (United Nations, 2021). Hearing and reading about these facts can be deeply disturbing. Depth psychology tells us that when a thought or an experience is too painful or difficult to bear, we use psychological defences so we can carry on as if it wasn’t there. We can know and not know about the climate crisis at the same time, something known in...
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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...simple commands: ‘you come here’, ‘you put him down’, ‘don’t touch him’, in order to get people to do things for her. Although in mature adult speech, commands are often expressed as either imperative clauses in which the subject (you) is absent – e.g. ‘come here’ – or expressed indirectly through interrogative clauses – e.g. ‘Could you come...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...code of ethics. And they're basically around the Nolan principles with two others added on to that. CHRIS NAUGHTON You need to be able to be flexible, so one minute to be dealing with the business of policing - money, performance - those areas of work - estates. And one phone call later you're dealing with running what would be quite considerable investigation or we got a...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...simple to use. There is a search bar at the top of the screen. You can type in either keywords or a particular aspect that you’re looking at. TES then narrows it down for you an awful lot. It can give you keyword matches or key stage matches so if you’re early years, primary or secondary, it breaks it all down for you. If you then decide this resource is good then you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...simple economic model, how demand and supply affect house prices and discuss the consequences for different types of household understand, with the aid of the household financial balance sheet, why housing may be viewed as a store of wealth...Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing: 1 Buy or rent? - Attitudes to buying or renting vary a good deal across countries....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...Simple. To save money. Small windows in new homes are a real concern for Professor Foster who, for more than 25 years, has studied how a low lux or light level can effect our internal body clock. Prof Russell Foster Outside light is incredibly bright. Even in a cloudy day in London, you’ve probably got 20,000, 30,000 lux. The equivalent in your home would be 200 to 300...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...simple-looking tables. Fortunately, for our purposes, we do not need to resolve this point, so we shall continue to refer to the table as a reciprocal table. Secondly, the Babylonians were quite able to divide by numbers other than regular ones, and approximated the results to three or four sexagesimal places. There are reciprocal tables for complete sequences of numbers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...simple terms speed refers to how quickly we move (for example, from the start to the end of a 100m race), while power is a combination of strength and speed, and refers to the ability to execute strong explosive movement at a fast pace (for instance, as with exploding from the starting blocks). Speed and power are closely related, and both are often important in specific...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs