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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...mental short-cut) is that households should spend no more than 30% of their disposable income on total housing costs (mortgage or rent, regular property taxes and home insurance) but of course individual households may have to, or choose to, spend more. When looking at Figures 7−9, it’s important to bear in mind that you are looking at data only for people who have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...mental note about which you agree with. A. Both cowboys pose a lethal threat to the other. So each is liable to defensive killing. B. Both cowboys pose a lethal threat to the other. But whether each is liable to defensive killing depends on other facts about their situation. Discussion If you agree with option A, you are in line with Walzer’s position. If you agree with...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...mentality you find in conventional medicine. And millions of them around the world are turning to complementary and alternative forms of medicine, which tend to tap into sort of slower, gentler, more holistic forms of healing. Now, obviously the jury is out on many of these complementary therapies, and I personally doubt that the coffee enema will ever, you know, gain...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...mental stress, etc. (generally speaking, illness covers longer-term issues than injuries, but the two areas do overlap) near misses – any incident that could easily have resulted in harm (for example, a person trips but manages to avoid falling). The first stage in assessing and managing risk is to identify the hazards. A hazard can be thought of as anything that might...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...mental and social isolation that Harki elders were experiencing in the camps. Transit camps such as Bias were opened in 1962 to temporarily house Harkis and their families until they could be integrated into French communities. The image was taken in 1975, however, indicating that some Harkis were still living in sparse and isolated accommodation more than a decade after...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...mental or emotional pressure, and a feeling that you are unable to cope. Most people experience stressful situations at some point and our bodies generate stress hormones (which trigger our internal ‘fight or flight’ response) to help us deal with them. However, if we are constantly feeling stressed, these hormones remain in our bodies and start to affect our physical...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c. 9), ss. 67(1), 68(1)-(3), Sch. 6 para. 43 (with ss. 27, 28, 29, 62); S.I. 2007/1897, art. 2(1)(c)(d) F4 Words in s. 4(5)(f) substituted (1.10.2013) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 14 para. 5(5); S.I. 2013/2200, art. 3(g) Box 4d Extract from the HRA 1998 5 Right of Crown to intervene. (1) Where a court is considering...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...santé! (‘to your health’), and in Germany they say Prost! (‘may it do you good’). In this video Paul Kosmetatos introduces how alcohol affected the ancient world. PAUL KOSMETATOS Modern people, of course, know that alcohol's first use is for intoxication. Let's say what it is. But this has not always been the case. And of course, ancient societies and pre-modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs