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Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...forensic[public] oratory; she brings people safe from Aegina for no more than two obols, I believe, and even if they come from Egypt or Pontus or ever so far away, the very most she charges for this great service, for conveying in safety, as I said, a man and his children and property and women, is two drachmae when he disembarks at the Piraeus. The quote above is taken...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...psychological perspective. His preferred entrepreneurial motivator is the ‘need for achievement’ (‘nAch’, as it is usually abbreviated) – ‘a desire to do well, not so much for the sake of social recognition or prestige, but to attain an inner feeling of personal accomplishment’. McClelland was quite critical of the profit motive as the mainspring of...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...Psychology in Practice, 17(4). Said, E. (1978) Orientalism, Pantheon Books, New York. Slee, R. & Allan, J (2001) ‘Excluding the Included: a reconsideration of inclusive education.’ International Studies in Sociology of Education, 11(2), pp. 173–191. Thingstrup, S., Schmidt, L. & Andersen, R. (2018) ‘The purpose of education: pedagogues’ and teachers’...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...psychological complexities. It is likely that Rossetti chose this ancient oral verse form because she was interested in raising ambiguities. But perhaps the point of the word ‘nay’ chiming throughout ‘Love From the North’ is to indicate the female speaker saying no to both men – the compliant lover and his opposite, the demon lover, alike? After all, ‘nay’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...psychological wartime tactic, which purports to attack and weaken the entire community to which the victim belongs. From a socio-cultural perspective, sexual violence is used to assert specific political goals by means of humiliation, degradation and the terrorisation of a particular social group. The report describes several situations involving the use of rape and other...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...psychological and social, would be managed. Others argue that even with such holistic care, some individuals may wish to choose when and how they die. However, research suggests that requests for assisted dying or euthanasia actually increase among people receiving hospice (i.e. end-of-life) care (Chapple et al., 2006; Lawton, 2000; Seale and Addington-Hall, 1995). A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...psychological claims strongly parallel ideas that council estates generate their own subcultures that signal such places as different from others. This is also replicated by some journalists: The truth is that council housing is a living tomb. You dare not give the house up because you might never get another, but staying is to be trapped in a ghetto of both place and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...Psychological Approaches, Saint Louis, MO, C.V. Mosby Press. Bytheway, B. and Johnson, J. (2010) ‘An ageing population and apocalyptic demography’, Radical Statistics, no. 100, p. 4–10 [Online]. Available at http://www.radstats.org.uk/ no100/ BythewayJohnson100.pdf (Accessed 28 November 2014). Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (2011) Survey of...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs