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Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...physical or mental health; worrying about your ability to cope; the challenges of dealing with behavioural changes in the person you care for; feeling anxious about what will happen if there is a change in your own circumstances (e.g. if you become ill or when you die); being worried about starting discussions about future care with the person you care for because it...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...physics, chemistry and biology experiments...This practical, hands-on course aims to help you start thinking like a scientist by carrying out experiments at home and making scientific observations. You will carry out simple experiments to extract the DNA from fruit or vegetables, observe osmosis in action and bake a potato to destruction! You’ll also investigate how...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding PCSO powers
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding PCSO powers

...physical injury to the person or the PCSO in any place where the requirement to wait has been made. b.persons made subject to a requirement to wait for items that might be used to assist escape in any place where the requirement to wait has been made. Please note that the threshold for conducting this search is ‘reason to believe’ (Police Reform Act 2002, Schedule 3C...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...physical things, such as a resistance, voltage or pressure; we say they are temperature transducers. The temperature 'reading' is really a graduated indication of one of those other physical quantities. It is not very useful until the instrument has been calibrated against a defined numerical scale of temperature. Here are some effects by which temperature is sensed and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Explainer: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

...fact it cannot be combined with the standard model of particle physics are all thoroughly interesting topics. To have the time to describe them all, we would need to be accelerating near the speed of light … or in a strong gravitational field. This article was originally published on The Conversation on 11 October 2011. Read the original article there.[The Conversation]...
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Article 5 mins
Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Women's Suffrage

...physically restraining arms of a policeman at the gates of Buckingham Palace when she tried to present a petition to the king. Or how about the grainy footage of the Epsom Derby in June 1913, when Emily Wilding Davison was fatally wounded after running under the hooves of the king’s horse. But this popular protest, which became militant after the founding of the...
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Video 5 mins
Freud: The Expert View
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freud: The Expert View

...physical ‘mode’ - at the oral stage, sucking or biting - and a psychological ‘modality’ - at this stage the child is dependent on others for survival and satisfaction.) The anal stage comes next where the core conflict relates to the requirement of the child to control his/her own body functions to the requests of others. According to Freud, this may lay the...
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Article 10 mins
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...physical response, when a person believes that they have done something wrong in surviving retrenchment when others haven’t, leaving them with a feeling of self-guilt. Many studies show that those left behind can find it difficult. They display an increase in alcohol consumption, smoking and workplace injury, and other studies show an effect on the mental health, with...
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Article 10 mins