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Electronic applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Electronic applications

...law and Kirchhoff’s voltage and current laws. Whilst all of this is necessary to understand electronics, it doesn’t really explain how electronics allows you to watch a live broadcast from the Caribbean. In part, this is due to the sheer scale of electronic systems. A typical computer in 2020 has around 10 000 000 000 (or 10 billion) transistors. Nobody could sit down...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...law and also social work and political conflict. CIARÁN SHANNON My name is Ciarán Shannon. I am a consultant clinical psychologist. I’ve always had both clinical and academic roles and that’s very similar today. I’m a consultant clinical psychologist who manages specialist psychology service in mental health in an NHS trust. And I’m also director of the trust...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...law, being a member of a jury, and paying taxes. This focus on rights and duties is a conventional understanding of citizenship, however, it is not the only way in which contemporary citizenship can be understood. Your list may, for example, contain ideas about what it means to belong, e.g. that we should share values, common ancestry, or a language. Citizenship is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier. (OHCHR, 2020) Box 1 What is the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? The Convention has 54 articles that cover all aspects of a child’s life and sets out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that all children everywhere are entitled to. It also explains how adults and governments must...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...law-like generalisations which can be applied to the same phenomenon in different contexts. This perspective, which privileges objectivity, is called positivism and is based on data that can be subject to statistical analysis and generalisation. Positivist researchers use quantitative methodologies, which are based on measurement and numbers, to collect and analyse data....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...law and actually what they are doing is sharing child pornography. They don’t report concerns very much. It’s often when the staff do spot checks online and they look at their devices that we find things. My top ten kind of tips would be it’s all about education and making the parents and carers and the staff aware about the vulnerability of this particular group of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...law in 2001 which strengthened students’ rights to a mainstream placement: Schools supported by local education authorities and others should actively seek to remove the barriers to learning and participation that can hinder or exclude pupils with special educational needs. (DfES, 2001b, paragraph 7) The Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE), a campaigning...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...laws acting around us. (Darwin, 1859/1985, p. 459) So starts the final paragraph of Charles Darwin's famous book The Origin of Species. I have included it here because Darwin sets out beautifully, in one sentence, the complexity of the natural world. First, he introduces us to an ecosystem – ‘an entangled bank’. (I like to think of this as a hedgerow in my home...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs