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Water for life
Nature & Environment

Water for life

...English, soda (natrium in Latin) Na magnesium from Magnesia, a district of Thessaly in Greece Mg aluminium from the Latin, alumen (alum) Al silicon from the Latin, silex (flint) Si sulfur from the Latin name sulphur for the element S chlorine from the Greek, chloros (yellowish green) Cl potassium from the English, potash (symbol from kalium - Latin for alkali) K calcium...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...English term ‘veil’ (like its European variants, such as voile in French) is commonly used to refer to Middle Eastern and South Asian women’s traditional head, face (eyes, nose, or mouth), or body cover. As a noun veil derives, through Middle English and Old North French, from the Latin vēla, pl. of vēlum. The dictionary meaning assigned to it is ‘a covering,’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...English and ask yourself why it is significant. Record your thoughts as they may be useful when you complete the quiz at the end of this session. Discussion The article mentions the Children and Young Persons Act 1963, the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, the Children Act 1989 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Each of these has been very significant in shaping the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...English traveller to Egypt. She wrote a lively account of her journey up the Nile in 1874 (first published in 1877). As a result of her growing interest in the place, she went on to found the Egypt Exploration Society and to fund a Chair in Egyptology at London University. Activity 2 Amelia Edwards – traveller Read the quotations below and then answer this question:...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...English NHS hospitals have been reported to the Health Protection Agency since April 2007 via a web-based Surveillance Data Sheet. So-called ‘lab returns’ on the number of positive blood cultures (MRSA bacteraemia), and CDI-infected stool samples, are collected from each location. Patients are now routinely screened for nasal carriage of MRSA before and at admission...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Secondary learning
Education & Development

Secondary learning

...English Dictionary, 1983, p. 938). Leach and Moon (2008, p. 6) defined pedagogy as ‘a dynamic process informed by theories, beliefs and dialogue but only realised in the daily interactions of learners and teachers and real settings’. Pedagogy is essentially, therefore, what goes on in the classroom, underpinned by a complex mixture of the values, beliefs and past...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...English market town on the Scottish borders and has around 40 residents, about half of whom are living with dementia. Originally a very large old vicarage, it was converted to its current role in the 1970s and has since been fully repurposed and redecorated by a large care group in the voluntary sector which bought it in the early 1990's. It still has quite a quirky...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...English as their first language (ONS, 2021)...Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change: 3.2 Principal views? - So let’s read about school leaders’ views of some of these challenges and how they deal with them. Activity 6 Principal views? Timing: 45 minutes Read Sider, S., Maich, K., Morvan, J., Villella, M., Ling, P. and Repp, C., (2021) ‘Inclusive school leadership:...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs