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Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...De Grussa mastered using specialist computer software to achieve his ambition of composing music. He received an award at Adult Learners’ Week in 2012 but his real reward was that he was finally enabled to achieve his ambition...Positive risk-taking: 2.1 Care or support – what’s the difference? - There’s a subtle but very important distinction between caring for...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...de Barcelona, has been looking at the division of work between men and women in British households. What he has found is that when it comes to housework, on average women do almost four times as much as their partners – men averaging five and a half hours a week, compared with women’s 19 hours a week. Where both partners are in employment they end up working (paid and...
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...De)constructing Paula Radcliffe: Exploring media representation of elite running, pregnancy and motherhood through cultural sport psychology’, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, pp. 820−829. McGannon, K. R. and Schinke, R. J. (2013) ‘‘My first choice is to work out at work; then I don't feel bad about my kids’: A discursive psychological analysis of...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...de force, watch this Waltz Around Saturn video produced by Fabio Di Donato who edited together highlights from the Cassini mission during its orbital tour of Saturn. Turn your sound on, because we think that fitting the pictures to this music was a work of genius. [This is an image taken from the Waltz around Saturn video.] Figure 27 Highlights from the Cassini mission...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...De Jonge and Kemp, 2012) How easy was it to decipher the meaning of these text messages? For many children it’s easy, although for others it can seem like a completely new language. Optimists view text message abbreviations as playful, inventive and creative features, but pessimists feel that they threaten more traditional standards of written English, leading to a...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...De Bijoux : https://pixabay.com/ en/ reading-comic-album-book-1394124/ Figure 3: © James Chapman Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...de Larrea, Marta Molina, Francisco Rodríguez-Cabrera, Mariano Martín, Paloma Merino-Amador, Jose León Paniagua, Juan F Muñoz-Montalvo, Faustino Blanco, Raquel Yotti, on behalf of the ENE-COVID Study Group* The Lancet 2020, 366: 535-544. Humoral immune response to SARS-CoV-2 in Iceland. Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Ph.D., Gudmundur L. Norddahl, Ph.D., Pall Melsted, Ph.D.,...
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Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...De Haan in 1959 who passed on to his son in 1984. They provide packaged holidays, related insurance products (travel, caravan, motor) and then, more recently, branched into financial services products (travel money, credit cards) and latterly health care. As the changing demographics demonstrate, this is a growing market. You can see how the value proposition for older...