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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...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...English, written in 1874. First you will discover something about Hardy’s life, and the importance to his writing of the region he grew up in, the South-West of England. You will then read one short chapter from Far From the Madding Crowd and find out about how Hardy uses narration, style and dialogue to create characters and a fictional world that readers can believe...
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...English Dictionary (1999) defines art as: ‘The creation of works of beauty or other special significance’ and ‘Human creativity as distinguished from nature’. How far does this reflect your own views? If you want to amend your own definition in the light of this, do so now...Week 3: Art history in the arts and humanities: 2 Artworks and their effects - The...
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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...English Dictionary defines non-verbal communication as: … those aspects of communication such as gestures and facial expressions that do not involve verbal communication but may include non-verbal aspects of speech. In studying non-verbal communication, you will gain an insight into the unspoken messages you are conveying to colleagues, interviewers, family and friends....
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...English border. Some funding is private – in other words, the people receiving the service pay for themselves – but some services are funded by the NHS or by social services. For people living in Wales, health funding would be from the Hereford and Worcester Clinical Commissioning Group, while people living in neighbouring Powys would be funded by the Powys Teaching...
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...English Language provision. They still have the right to health services. If they meet the threshold for vulnerability, not caused by destitution, then they have right to social care as well. Children have the same rights as everybody else in Scotland, so preschool, school, all the grants that other kids get, and the other big difference with England is legal aid, so...
Data and processes in computing
Digital & Computing

Data and processes in computing

...English-speaking user). We will denote by Char the set of characters appearing in Table 2. We will call the codes in the table the ASCII codes of the characters. The original ASCII set (developed by ANSI, the American National Standards Institute) was finalised in 1968, and provides a basic (but by no means complete) character set for English. With the development of the...
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Judicial decision making
Society, Politics & Law

Judicial decision making

...English law. So we were interested in dealing with cases from any area of law rather than confining ourselves to a particular line of jurisprudence. But that’s where the idea originally came from. PAUL TROOP Some theorists, particularly formalists and formalist judges, might say, well, we’re not biased. There’s no scope for bias because the facts are the facts. The...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs