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Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...et al., 2021). Reading has also been linked to the development of empathy and plays a key role in the personal development of children and teenagers (Wilkinson et al., 2020). A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has also found that fifteen-year-old students from lower socio-economic backgrounds who read frequently scored...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...et al. (1985) described the complexity of what they regarded as a real or physical system as arising from the interaction of: the number of elements comprising the system, for example, the number of chips on a circuit board; the attributes of the specified elements of the system, for example, the degree of proficiency of musicians in an orchestra; the number of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...et al., 1992, pp. 290–1) Chaudhry-Lawton et al. (1992) go on to describe some troubleshooting techniques to avoid problems arising from mismanagement of external boundaries. Team members need to have and use knowledge of changing situations and pressures both inside and outside the team. These may be related to social, environmental, financial or business changes that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...et al struggling to deal with a spike in remote tools thanks to coronavirus’ and ‘We analysed electricity demand and found coronavirus has turned weekdays into weekends’. Until we are able to revise the course to include this future research, you may want to search for more articles on ‘green computing’ to bring yourself up to date with this important topic....
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...et al. (2012) suggest that: A legally compliant age assessment carried out to professional standards will serve the interests of both the young person and the assessing local authority, not least because of the possibility of a challenge to a decision through judicial review with all that this potentially entails for the parties concerned. It is important therefore to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...et al., 2017). Psychological and neuroscientific studies, based on scientific, positivistic premises, also have a role to play in generating understandings about children’s development and learning (Goswami, 2006; Bruer, 2016; Juvonen and Gross, 2005). This leads to the question as to how these contributions to knowledge can be recognised in a post-positivist world of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...et al. (2005) 'Recent climate change in the Arctic', Science of the Total Environment, vol. 342, no. 1-3, 15 April 2005, Elsevier Inc. Video 1: Using Google Earth to look at the ocean with Mark Brandon : © content: Google Earth/Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO. https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/ Video 2: Using Google Earth with a file containing information...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...Edition, Oxford University Press (this edition 2008). Davis, R. W. et al. (1999), ‘Hunting Behavior of a Marine Mammal Beneath the Antarctic Fast Ice’, Science, vol.283, no.5404, pp.993–6. Available at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.283.5404.993 (Accessed 22 January 2019). Eldredge, N. (1991) Fossils: The Evolution and Extinction of Species, London, Aurum Press....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs