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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
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
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...English rivers fall into Classes A, B and C in Table 2. On an international scale, cleaning up polluted rivers or lakes is more complicated when they pass through more than one country. For example, the River Rhine has parts of its catchment in eight countries, and an almost total lack of pollution control resulted in the Rhine being one of the most polluted large rivers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 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
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
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...English south coast and five Muslim friends are meeting for a meal at Tuntun's Cafe. The restaurant is Bangladeshi Muslim, and the food is halal with no alcohol. SERVER: You like chicken roast? FARIDA PANHWAR: Yeah. SERVER: You like spice a little bit? FARIDA PANHWAR: Yeah, of course. [LAUGHING] I love all the spices. [LAUGHING] HAYDAR KARAMAN: All right, yeah. NARRATOR:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 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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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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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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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs