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...community in NI We're providing a selection of free training courses to enhance your career prospects and opportunities. You can do these short courses at any time and at your own pace. These courses are designed to help you gain new skills and boost your CV. You can gain a digital badge or certificate for completing them. The athlete's journey Free courses Study a degree...

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Article 5 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

A Support Net: Can you help someone in need?

...community and work support, and student services. Additionally, below is a list of useful resources and helplines: Mind's information and support pages Call the Samaritans on 116 123, for free or look at the other ways of contacting them. The NHS Mental health - live well pages The NHS overcoming addiction pages This resource is part of the 'Wellbeing and Mental Health...

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Activity 20 mins

Languages

Crime fiction

...communication courses. Crime fiction is the best-selling literary genre in Great Britain and other European countries. People’s reasons for reading, watching and listening to crime stories are many and varied. Maybe you like the puzzle element, testing your wits against those of the detective, or you could enjoy trying to understand the motives of the criminal. Perhaps...

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Article 5 mins

Money & Business

Partnerships: working across boundaries

...at the pottery. Neighbourhoods The way in which partnerships and collaborations can improve the safety of communities Infrastructure Cobridge’s canals are improved as a result of different bodies working together Emergency operations How Medecins Sans Frontieres deals with the complexities and logistics of working across diverse cultural and geographical boundaries...

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Audio 38 mins

Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...oral story-telling tradition typically involving animals, occasionally humans or forces of nature interacting with each other. The best-known fables are attributed to the ancient Greek storyteller Aesop, although there are fables found in almost all human societies and oral traditions making this an almost universal feature of human culture. A more modern example of an...

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Article 15 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...community, institutional racism, cultural vandalism. Family violence Forms of physical or mental violence in the life cycle of family members: it can include physical abuse and neglect of children, partner domestic violence, or elder abuse. Although family violence is in some ways a different order of violence than other crimes of the powerful, it is included here because...

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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...communities. In the nineteenth century, the English parliamentary historian Thomas Macaulay graphically described its effects: Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which...

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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs

Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...communication technologies, and discover how computers work behind the scenes...This free course, Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century, provides a general overview of how digital technology has come to dominate virtually every aspect of the modern world and some guidance on how to prepare for this digital life. It also provides a more detailed explanation...

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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs

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