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Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...et al. (2021, p.20) cite the seminal work of Caspersen et al. (1985) who define physical activity in terms of three elements: movement of the body produced by the skeletal muscles resulting energy expenditure, which varies from low to high a positive correlation with physical fitness. It is important to note that physical activity and exercise are not quite the same...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...style. Moses is not speaking aloud here, but his consciousness is rendered as though he were speaking, though in the narrator’s third-person, rather than in the first-person. The close correlation between the narrative voice and the voices of the Caribbean migrant characters is for many critics one of the most innovative elements of Selvon’s writing in The Lonely...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...style had evolved into the highly abstract and unrepresentational cuneiform (‘wedge-shaped’) script. This script, which was used initially for writing down words in the Sumerian language, was later also adopted by neighbouring peoples. All of the Babylonian tablets are written in Akkadian, a Semitic language quite different from Sumerian, although some mathematical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring issues in women's health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring issues in women's health

...et al. (2010). An individual’s health is enabled or inherited by their social context. Social class and a woman’s context shapes her life, it affects access to material resources and the amount of control women have over their lives. The body is simultaneously social, psychological and biological. It is both through and with a woman’s body that her self-identity is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...style. Reading voraciously helps, and so will writing practice such as blogging, student journalism, creative writing. And spelling is really important for translators; bad spelling can give a bad impression to clients. General knowledge: General knowledge is very important for translators. It can help you pick up mistakes in texts. Read the papers, watch the news, films...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...et al. (2018) who argue for the use of assets-based approaches which ‘value the resources that exist in the community and build on the strengths and affordances of communities’. They further argue that ‘a strong assets-based approach that emphasises and values the experience of community members is an effective way to empower communities to make positive change’....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...Profile, which is available before completion of the course and earning of the Statement of Participation....Session 1: Sport injury and psychology – what’s the link?: Introduction - Being injured and missing the whole athletics season was devastating. I’d worked so hard and then I had nothing to show for it. I missed training, I missed my training group, and most...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...et al. 2015) raises precisely this question: how are teacher attitudes towards linguistic diversity related to the expectations they hold of their students? While the study does not actually go on to examine a link between teacher expectations and student performance, the results of the study are not pretty: The researchers found that three-quarters of all the 674...
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