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The science of genetics
Nature & Environment

The science of genetics

...families have collections of photographs spanning several generations. Brothers and sisters may share features that they also share with their biological parents, but in addition they have their own particular combination of characters that make them recognizable as individuals. You can detect visible features or characters such as height and colour of skin. But what we...
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The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...family and community to Roma culture developed as a protection against the prejudice of mainstream society. In this situation, Roma women are reluctant to report abuse, fearing ostracism from their extended family and expecting discrimination by wider society. How is anti-Roma prejudice being tackled? 2 August is recognised as European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. This...
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Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...families. Health also became a political concern: the future strength of the nation was seen to rest on the good health of children – the future generations of soldiers and workers. At the beginning of the twentieth century, popular beliefs about the best means of preserving health were little different from those prescribed two thousand years earlier in classical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...family, colleagues and even health and care professionals (Jacobs et al., 2017). The next activity gets you to think about how you might have used the internet for health and care. Activity 3 Using the internet for health information Think about how you might use or have used the internet for the purpose of health and care. In the box below, type in three things that...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...family relationships, our property, sport, science, employment, education, health, everything in fact from neighbour disputes to war." 11 UK prime ministers have had legal qualifications, most recently Tony Blair, and many world leaders are lawyers, including Barack Obama. Other law graduates include Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Derren Brown, Gabby Logan, and Gerard Butler....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...family or friends, planning an event with colleagues at work, responding to an emergency, working together to set a budget, participating in a meeting, to delivering a change in local or national government policy. Figure 1 Features commonly found in in successful schools. Mark Gardner of the National Governors Association identified that ‘building a successful...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Children and young people: food and food marketing
Education & Development

Children and young people: food and food marketing

...family, class, cultural, generational). Discussing key issues that in research and thinking about food, including how policies tackling obesity are framed, it draws across work from Childhood and Youth Studies and Psychology to challenge the rhetoric of 'healthy choices' and consider why it's essential to go beyond the individual to understand systems and environments...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...family speaks. And that just goes to show, there’s nothing inherently good or bad about anything. Things change, full stop. Changes in language...Continuing classical Latin: 1.2 Notions of language change in Ancient Rome - The Roman elite had ideas very similar to ours about the written form of their language. They also thought that it was the correct form of language,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs