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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...techniques (e.g. meditation, visualisation, yoga), eschewing ‘avoidance’ (avoidance of situations or interactions maintains anxiety). Activity 9 Treatments for Anxiety Timing: Allow 30 minutes Listen to the podcast below and consider the questions that follow. You might wish to listen to the entire recording first and review this again thinking specifically about the...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...techniques, to provide a complete answer to this one question covering such a big theme, particularly an answer which is valid for all these people and their varied economic and social circumstances; data and techniques both have to be used with common sense. Instead, the aim of this text is more modest: to explore small batches of data relevant to the question (and...
Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...techniques and new skills. (McCall and Lawlor, 2000, cited in Jones and Pound, 2008, p. 1) Effective educational provision requires leaders, and all practitioners, to continually reflect on children’s experiences in their setting and, in partnership with families, governors and other professionals, to initiate change for improvement. [Described image] Figure 12...
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...Techniques for sampling and analysis of Cryptosporidium are complicated and time-consuming, requiring the filtration of large volumes of water (100–1000 litres), followed by several stages of elution, isolation and concentration of the oocysts, and then identification and enumeration by immunofluorescent microscopy. Initial testing does not provide information on...
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...techniques that see safely inside the body using light, sound and magnetic fields. BERNIE CLARK Electronic equipment is vital to the satellites that allow us to explore the deepest reaches of space. ARMANDO MARINO It is essential to keeping humans alive and well in the International Space Station for long periods of time. TIM DRYSDALE Our understanding of the world has...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...techniques through which certain descriptions are worked up to become more persuasive than others, effectively marginalising or silencing alternative accounts. The ability to control discourse can be a vital source of power. As Zareen Zaidi and colleagues (2021, p. 74) argue, not only government institutions exert power within society, it is also maintained through...
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...techniques revealed appalling levels of chronic and sub-clinical disease (meaning disease that had not yet surfaced as having apparent symptoms) in urban children (Bivins, 2014). During the Second World War, it became evident that families under siege needed help with feeding themselves. Evacuation also highlighted the poor health and nutrition status of many of the young...
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI. When volunteer subjects are slid in to the vast circular electromagnets on which these machines rely, it’s possible to image the structure of their brains. And, crucially, see which areas are functioning while they perform certain tasks. As I peered through the window that separates the control room from...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs