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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...Mental health nurse in a special hospital Motor mechanic in a garage Words: 0 Comment The table below shows the responses you might have given, although your wording might be slightly different. Table 3 Filling the gaps example JOB PROFESSION BUSINESS/INDUSTRY SECTOR Primary school teaching assistant Teaching Primary school Education Credit controller in a car factory...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...mental checklist for when you meet an interviewer or someone at a networking event is a useful way to make sure your first impression is a good one. You could use the following: Make eye contact Smile Firm handshake (if appropriate) Sit straight in your chair, shoulders down and back Maintain open body language (don’t fold your arms or cross your legs) Listen to what...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...mental (cognitive) performance. Regular inadequate fluid intake can contribute to chronic kidney (renal) disease. Older people are at increased risk of dehydration which can lead to confusion and even hospitalisation. Diarrhoea and vomiting can also cause dehydration. Therefore, fluid and electrolytes should be replaced. Activity 6 Are you dehydrated? Timing: Allow...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...mentally a task as well. STUDENT 8: I think we have all very different ideas, and to bring all these ideas together, I think it's difficult. We don't have any experience, and the ideas are really abstract. So we are looking for something more concrete, and we think we found it now. NARRATOR: Conversations range widely. But in the end, the groups must find something they...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...mental break. Many of the pressures and anxieties experienced at work really are nobody’s fault and no one person can hope to solve the underlying issue. A single individual cannot solve societal poverty and ill-health, for example. More mundanely, organisations can be expert at shifting responsibility for big issues onto the shoulders of individuals, quite unfairly....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...mental well-being and gender equality. Finally, the central pillar of degrowth scholarship: Economic democracy. Democratise workplaces. Democratise public services. Democratise the media. We know empirically that when people have democratic control over production, they choose to use resources more wisely, they focus on what is required for human welfare, and they sustain...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...mental condition, confirmed later by what we learn of her history. Miss Havisham's gothic surroundings alert us to an understanding of her position beyond anything the young boy could see, although as the adult narrator informs us he ‘saw more’ in the first moments ‘than might be supposed’. Her corrupting potential is conveyed to the reader, even though the boy...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...mental processes. As we work through the subject, two basic issues will emerge. One is concerned with the mechanisms of attention, and raises questions such as: How much material can we take in at once? What happens to information to which we did not attend? In what circumstances does attention fail, allowing unwanted information to influence or distract us? The other...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs