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Why is FGM practised?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is FGM practised?

...codes and are breaking the law. The World Health Organisation (WHO, 2025) vigorously calls for an end to medicalised FGM as it perpetuates and risks normalising an illegal, unsafe, violent and harmful practice and grossly undermines eradication efforts. FGM can never be condoned; no matter if undertaken by a lay cutter or by a healthcare practitioner. For further reading...
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Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...simple answer is that a repeated phrase provides a pattern. In the examples quoted above, three separate characters use the same words, so that might suggest a connection between them. You could come back to this question again later when you have more information, but the idea of pattern and of connection is key to Woolf’s thoughts and beliefs. In her essay ‘Sketch...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...simple. A recording device is placed in front of a musician, a few takes are recorded, any editing that is necessary is quickly done on the computer and the resulting piece of music is available for immediate distribution on the web. All this can be accomplished in the room of someone’s house and in some instances the presence of a live musician is not even needed. But...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...simple division of a manager’s job into these separate elements remains a powerful idea, although now we would refer to ‘commanding’ as leading...Managing and managing people: 2 What is managerial effectiveness? - There are no absolute measures of managerial effectiveness. Organisations have aims and objectives, and managers are effective when they help their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...simple grammatical terms such as ‘noun’, ‘verb’, ‘adjective’ and so on. People, animals, objects and abstract concepts are all nouns. All Italian nouns – not just people and animals – have a gender; they are either masculine or feminine. Knowing the gender of nouns is important since it determines the form of the article (‘the’ or ‘a’ in English)...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...simple picture in Figure 4 substantially. A better representation is shown in Figure 7. Now most of the longwave radiation from the surface is effectively 'trapped' and recycled by the atmosphere, being repeatedly absorbed and re-emitted in all directions by the greenhouse gases. This warms the atmosphere. Some of the re-emitted radiation ultimately goes out to space,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...Code which directs registrants to their obligation to support students in their learning: Section 9: Share your skills, knowledge and experience for the benefit of people receiving care and your colleagues. Section 9.4: Support students’ and colleagues’ learning to help them develop their professional competence and confidence. Section 11: Be accountable for your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...simple experiment in the bath to demonstrate total internal reflection if you have a waterproof torch (or a torch you can seal in a transparent plastic bag). You might be sceptical about doing this experiment, but I would commend it to you to reinforce the concept of total internal reflection. Please, though, remember that electricity and water can be dangerous. Only do...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs