1,569 search results
Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts

...care proceeding plan, I do believe I would have failed. I worked with social services for quite a long time before they took me to FDAC. I know people that have gone through the traditional, obviously people I worked with as I was getting clean. I worked with a few people that it was horrendous experience for them. So I do think there would have been a big difference. I...
View course Exploring criminology: problem-solving courts
Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...adult in its long, dense winter coat. The summer coat is usually greyish brown, often with white markings. Alopex is bred in captivity for its fur, which can vary in colour from grey to bluish in winter, and chocolate brown to fawn in summer, hence the common names, silver fox or blue fox. Figure 2b shows a subspecies of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) that is...
View course Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting university students with a mental health condition

...adults, suggesting studying at university is a negative influencing factor (Brown, 2016; Winzer et al., 2018). According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (2025), factors that contribute to students having poor mental health include moving away from home, academic and financial pressures, and the absence of familiar social and emotional support...
View course Supporting university students with a mental health condition
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing

...adult-to-adult conversations, is also critical organisational and team factors, where employee contributions that are valued; wellbeing is deemed important; procedural justice exists (fairness of decision-making processes); psychological safety is paramount (where speaking up is not punished by rejection or ridicule); plus providing employees with both responsibility and...
View article Taking a Fresh Look at Managing Employee Engagement and Wellbeing
Article 10 mins
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...adult narrator looking back over a considerable time and so able to exercise adult judgements about himself. For example, he says that it was a ‘childish conclusion’ of his young self to imagine his dead mother ‘freckled and sickly’ on the basis of the gravestone inscription ‘Also Georgiana Wife of the Above’ (Dickens, Great Expectations, 1994 edn, p.3). We...
View course Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...adults, so don’t worry if you find them challenging. Sample answers and commentaries are provided so that you can develop your science subject knowledge while thinking about how to support primary-aged children’s learni\ng in science. Please note: while a range of science topics have been selected to illustrate how children’s learning can be supported, this course...
View course Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...care cannot be provided because they are incompatible with the delivery of punishment. Additionally, pain infliction – no matter how lenient or harsh – is an ineffective means of changing behaviour. There is no evidence it works under any circumstances but much evidence that punishment (especially severe punishment) encourages violent or otherwise undesirable...
View article Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Article 12 mins
Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
History & The Arts

Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation

...cared for by the local inhabitants of the island, influenced Mizuki's work for the rest of his life. After surviving the war and being demobilized in 1945, like millions of other returning soldiers, the one-armed Mizuki struggled to find a way to make living in rural Tottori Prefecture. He would go on to become a best-selling author, publishing hundreds of books. Thanks...
View article Mizuki Shigeru: An appreciation
Article 5 mins