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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...mental-health Video 1: Courtesy of Professor Pete Alcock Video 2: Council of Europe; https://www.coe.int/ en/ web/ youth/ about-youth-policy Video 3: Subnormal, A British Scandal; courtesy of Rogan Productions 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...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...mental models and frameworks to hang ideas and information on being able to distinguish relative importance and seeing patterns and relationships. The following activity is designed to help you see the power of structuring information and ideas. Activity 14 Read through the following list of words one at a time, then cover it up and see how many words you can remember:...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...mental focus on an elevating subject; noble simplicity, balance and symmetry (see Figure 7). You will find in the art of Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) the expression of a particularly pure form of classical composition. [Figure 7] Figure 7 Nicolas Poussin, The Holy Family in Egypt, 1655–7, 105 x 145.5 cm, The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.The principles...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...mental list of things to be done: renew the car’s MOT; make an appointment with the health visitor for her toddler’s two-year check-up. And there was the inspection they were facing at the school where Jill worked as a receptionist. The sound of the alarm forced her out of bed and into the shower. Jill managed to leave the house on time, bundling her toddler into the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...mentality reproduces stigmatising stereotypes of particular social groups, including among them some of the most deprived sections of society. Council estates did not always carry the social stigma that is attached to them now. In the 1920s and 1930s and for a considerable time after the Second World War they met the acute housing needs of millions of people across the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...mental capacity, the talent and human, it will create a very interesting dilemma for businesses. Do they listen to the financial world or do they work differently? And that value, which is at the moment captured by labour and capital, and capital gets more, we know from history, that balance is likely to change in, I think, next 50 years. And that means value proposition...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...mental leap from the evidence to a further fact using tacit information that is personal to them. For example, if in a stabbing case a suspect is later found with the victim’s blood on his hands, one juror might infer that the suspect was responsible for the assault. But another juror might infer that the suspect only went to help the victim after somebody else stabbed...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...mentally competent terminally ill people only. But you know what? There is such a fine line between terminal illness and disability, both medically and in public perception, that we become one and the same. And that means then that assisted suicide is seen by the public, by the medical profession, as a compassionate, a rational solution even, to the problems of anyone who...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs