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

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...economic development. Youth policy reflects how a government, or decision makers, view young people. The way a society treats its young people is very important for its present and future. So, youth policy is a question of values and vision of society. Youth refers to the transitions to autonomy that each person goes through. There are different definitions based on age...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...economics, the social aspects of sport science, yes. RH: So how did you move from that? BP: Well , I went to Britain for personal reasons, I met my wife in Germany and she’s British and so I was looking for a job and my PhD was in Ancient Greek History to do with the ancient Greek athletic rituals and festivals and I applied for a job in Liverpool, that’s why...
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Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...economic conditions may have changed so that, even with a long historic time series, forecasts of future returns, volatilities and correlations may not be appropriate. Seismic events such as 2008 and 2016 have woken investors up to the fact that risk cannot be measured by volatility alone. Which is why there is much more emphasis on liquidity – is an asset saleable...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...economic or political factors. Comment For example, ecosystem scientists might define biodiversity to include genetic, species and ecosystem diversity and view ‘nature’ as having intrinsic value. A multi-national company might define biodiversity in relation to ecosystem services that benefit humans (timber, pollination, medicinal plants) and some economists quantify...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...economically and I think that the problem with sustainable development is it’s a very limited – has limited aspirations and is not really going to significantly improve the lives of people in less developed countries. Host Well let’s bring David Lambert in here. Is he right? Is this a new approach? Maybe we should call geography – I don’t know – give it a new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...economic injustices on an international scale. Harding’s question requires criminologists to think outside nation-state and strict legalistic boundaries and to pursue what has been referred to as a ‘supranational criminology’ (Smeulers and Haveman, 2008). This course examines some of the ways that critical criminology has been applied to new areas of criminology and...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...economic and domestic circumstances. The term can also be used generally to denote quality of life experiences. Children and young people’s wellbeing may be influenced in a positive way by good physical health or material wealth, for example, yet undermined by poor social relationships; similarly, while relationships may be very positive, physical health can be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban
Society, Politics & Law

The difference between the Mexican Wall and the Muslim Ban

...economics and cultural demography. The US-Mexico border is the only part of the world where a first-world economy shares an extensive land border with the developing world. Europe, Britain and Australia are all insulated by moats which are much easier to control and harder to traverse. When people try to cross, they are easy to apprehend and send back to Turkey, Calais or...
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