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Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...central idea or theme of the text. Here you will quickly skim read the text to find out what it is about. You may not read or understand every word. Activity 4 Reading for gist Timing: Allow about 20 minutes To practise reading for gist, skim read the following two pieces of text to see how quickly you can understand what each text is about. Troubled Brits keep stiff...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...central focus of the Innocence Project, a US organisation dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing. The Innocence Project has an excellent website that contains a great deal of information on how miscarriages of justice occur and case files of all the wrongfully convicted people that the organisation has so far helped find justice....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...central role in society and is influenced by social, political and economic change. Opinions about law, lawyers, judges and the function of the legal system vary. The role and function of law is often in the news and much debated. Whether law is used to protect, regulate, uphold rights, challenge authority, resolve disputes or govern, it is central to society. In this...
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...central processing unit (CPU), memory, and an input/output unit. Based on the definition above, a digital watch is a computing device, but an analogue watch is not. The digital watch has a CPU to run its program, it has memory to store the program and other information, and it has an I/O device to allow user interaction (screen, display, buttons, sound alerts, etc.)....
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...central and important challenge for the current legal framework is that it's discriminatory. So under the Mental Health Order, a compulsory intervention is allowed based on mental disorder and risk. But that can be regardless of whether the person has the capacity to make the relevant treatment decision or not. So treatment can be forced even if a person has the capacity...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...Central Organisation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), many believe that the NOCs are in effect vice-ministerial level corporations, though their CEOs could be seen as higher ranking officials. Between April 2000 and February 2001, CNPC’s subsidiary PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC were all listed on international stock markets, allowing the NOCs to better integrate...
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...central to how they identify themselves but rather is secondary to other aspects of their identity, such as their gender, marital status, language, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality or parenthood status...Session 2: Understanding yourself and others: how identities shape and develop: 4 Identity and culture - One of the first steps you can take is to begin to...
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...central figure a Chinese philosophic gentleman residing in London writing home in some bewilderment at the habits of the natives, and why Voltaire took the view that China was a sophisticated land of admirable stability peopled by philosophes. The connotations of China in the prince's day were, in short, those of luxury, gaiety and the trappings of rank (Dinkel, 1983,...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs