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Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...modes of formation can be deduced from the textures and other features visible in the rocks themselves – reading the rocks...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.3 The formation of igneous rocks - Igneous rocks are defined as having solidified from a molten state, either inside the Earth or on the surface at volcanoes...Practising science: reading the...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...mode of production. Activity 6 Can you think of any other features of contemporary social arrangements that are represented as ‘natural’ or non-social? Jot down any you can think of. List also any social arrangements in which people do not act in line with conventional expectations and which are identified as ‘unnatural’. Discussion We are not going to try to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...mode all failed to seal the well. The large accident occurred because of the failure in all these smaller but interlinked events, demonstrating the importance of preventing even the most apparently minor incidents...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: 2.2 Human error - There is one more aspect to discuss in identifying the cause of accidents. Engineers can work...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...mode of travel, and look into parking arrangements if you are going in your own car. Do the items you can take into the exam - texts, dictionaries, calculators etc. – have a particular specification? Your exam guidance should give these details if you are unsure. It is usually permissible to take light refreshments, sweets or drinks into the exam room, as long as you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol
Society, Politics & Law

Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol

...et al, 2018). Gellir ei ddeall mewn ffordd syml iawn (gweithgareddau sy’n ymwneud â ‘chyfrifoldeb personol’, megis ufuddhau i’r gyfraith a thalu trethi), yr holl ffordd i synnwyr eithafol, gan ganolbwyntio ar fynd i’r afael ag anghyfiawnder mewn cymdeithas, a ddiffinnir gan Westheimer a Kahne (2004) fel dinasyddiaeth ‘sy’n canolbwyntio ar gyfiawnder’....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...et al., 2020). Whistleblowing is in the public interest because it legally protects people to raise concerns that affect the public or workers in an organisation. Raising concerns through appropriate routes is seen as important in protecting the public and people working in health and social care to ensure the quality and safety of care (General Medical Council, 2014;...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...et al., UN (2013). Figure 10 Share of income owned by the top one percent. The United States of America is still the country with the wealthiest 1 per cent (United Nations, 2013). In the USA, the average income of the top 5 per cent increased at an annual rate of 1.5 per cent between 1980 and 2011. In contrast, the average real income of the bottom 99 per cent of income...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...et al., 2011). The pathogens causing diarrhoeal diseases are transmitted in contaminated food and water and from hand to mouth (the faecal–oral route). A major underlying cause is the shaming fact that in 2010 around 780 million people (11% of the global population) lacked access to improved sources of drinking water (Figure 2), and 2.5 billion – 37% of the world’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs