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Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...law’s appearance. Later he remembers that over sixty years ago ‘his mother had given him the works of Byron in that very room’ (p.5) – another way in which the past is handed down to the present: from a volume of Romantic poetry, to his Victorian mother, to his recollection in the present moment. Mr Oliver’s quotation from Byron’s ‘She walks in beauty’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...Law, 19, 411–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034564 Birtchnell, J. (2014). The interpersonal circle and the interpersonal octagon: A confluence of ideas. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 21, 62–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpp.1819 Christianson, S.A. and Holmberg, M.D. (2002). Murderers’ and sexual offenders’ experiences of police interviews and their...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...laws and rights in existence within your society. You may consider that science and technology made it a very safe time for you to be born, perhaps that your parent(s) had a stable job in a strong economy, perhaps that there was good maternity health care for your mother. However, you may be thinking that there was no free health service in place to provide immunisations...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...Scots teachers ‘at burnout’ with seven in 10 stressed ‘most or all’ of the time When you have finished this task, you may want to have a discussion with friends or colleagues about the issues raised. Optional reading: You might also want to look at an article that shows it is not like this everywhere! Here is one about how a move to work in East Africa made a...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...law. However, in the UK, there is a law that protects the rights of people with learning disabilities in the same way it protects the rights of everyone else. This is the Human Rights Act 1998. This act means that if someone's rights have been breached, they can seek justice in a British court. It also means that all public bodies, like courts, police, local authorities,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to artificial intelligence
Education & Development

An introduction to artificial intelligence

...laws of thought”, often expressed using special systems of symbols deriving from mathematical logic, and thereby build computer systems which are able to reason similarly to humans (assuming logic adequately models human thought). One major challenge for such approaches is that human thought is typically full of contradictions and uncertainties, and so the sorts of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...law enforcement officers or judges, for example) do not tend to hold this bias towards assuming people are telling the truth. Instead, they hold a lie bias (Bond and De Paulo, 2006) which, it has been suggested, may be caused by a generalised suspicion resulting from their professions (Masip et al., 2005). In the next activity you can consider how your own responses might...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...law path. And in some respects, I think that that would be most effective, but the problem is we'd actually have to do it. Observing our political process in action makes me think it's highly unlikely that we're going to get a bunch of representatives to sit down, learn about this, and then enact sweeping changes to intellectual property law in the U.S. so users control...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs