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Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...central to your practice. We begin this section by examining the context and background to partnership working. We then go on to look at the benefits of working in partnership – for young people, for organisations and for communities...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: 2.1 Context and background to partnership working - The concept of different...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...Central Bank respectively set official rates. The rate set by the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) known as ‘Bank Rate’ is the rate at which the Bank of England will lend to the financial institutions. This, in turn, determines the level of bank ‘base rates’ – the minimum level at which the banks will normally lend money. Consequently, Bank Rate (also known as...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...central police station, but as they emerged again into the main street the crowd, sympathising with the soldier under arrest, made an attempt at rescue. An ugly rush took place, and at one time it appeared as if the police would be over-powered. Just then reinforcements arrived under Superintendent Charles Jones, placed themselves between the crowd and the prisoner, and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...Central Cell Block in DC for, I think the charge was ‘failure to yield’ . We were all sitting down in front of the gates of the White House. RH: And you wouldn’t move on? And you were recommending – I saw you talk in the UK – I think you recommended that if you want to do anything about climate change, you should be willing to go to jail: you should...
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Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...central to the scientific endeavour. Osborne (2002) argued that historical case studies can help a student to focus on what it means to do science. Incorporating the stories behind scientific discoveries can bring the nature of ‘ideas and evidence’ to life for students. It can also show that the ideas they may hold were once helped by famous scientists in the past....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...central role of the detective protagonist (Rzepka, 2005, pp. 149, 158). America, which had not lost its young men in the same horrific numbers in the First World War, saw instead the rise in popularity of its homegrown detective for the age – the hardboiled private eye in the growing industry of pulp fiction. If the likes of Dashiell Hammett’s Sam Spade (The Maltese...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...central question is not whether the musical grammar of 1960s American popular music was in itself revolutionary, but rather the impact of a period of apparent social revolution on the ways in which popular music was produced and consumed...Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution: 2 The position of women in popular music - Many different genres of popular music flourished...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...central banks are encouraging investors to buy riskier assets – so-called financial repression. 5. Given perverse incentives for institutions such as pension funds and insurance companies (e.g. the more bond yields fall, regulations require them to buy more bonds to meet their liabilities), there is likely to be a loosening of regulations which will allow these...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs