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What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...adult regards as nonsense. The roof seems to have detached itself from the house on the ground to become part of the sky. The sky is otherwise empty. A simple question of ‘place’ for a child, in this context, introduces ideas of visual and intellectual perspective. Let’s start building another kind of house: The house that Jack or Jill might build We know that poems...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...adults as crimes, but ‘de-criminalised’ them in 1967). Second, though, some people performing those behaviours are identified and labelled as deviant (or criminal), but perhaps not everyone who acts in these ways is identified and labelled. Becker also argued that labels could have powerful consequences. Drawing on the social interactionist approach in social...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...Adult Learning Wales, Coleg Gwent and the NPTC Group of Colleges....Introduction and guidance: Introduction and guidance - This free badged course, Everyday English 2, is an introduction to Functional Skills English Level 2 and Essential Skills Wales Communication Level 2. It is designed to inspire you to improve your current English skills and help you to remember any...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...adult stage they continue to be carnivorous. They eat midges and gnats and mosquitoes, butterflies, bees, very often each other. That's what they eat. And they're eaten in turn by birds. Hobbies, for example, make a particular speciality of catching dragonflies. NARRATOR Now part of the terrestrial food web, adult damselflies and dragonflies are also prey for a diversity...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...de Siècle Magazines.” Science and Literature: The Great Divide?, special issue of MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, vol. 7, 2013, pp. 33–40. Tippett, Benjamin K., and David Tsang. “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime.” arXiv preprint, 4 Nov. 2013, arxiv.org/abs/1310.7985. Willis, Martin. Literature and Science: Readers’ Guides to Essential...
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Article 10 mins
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...De Castella and McGarty, 2011; Every and Augoustinos, 2007; Kurz, Augoustinos, and Crabb, 2010; Tileagă, 2009), and also how these issues are understood by ‘lay’ people in everyday life (e.g. Figgou and Condor, 2007; Gibson and Hamilton, 2011; Andreouli, Greenland and Howarth, 2016). These approaches invite you to think critically about the political: to examine and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...adults (mainly pregnant women attending for antenatal care) and there is a delivery couch in a side room. However, around 90% of rural women choose to give birth in their own homes with a Health Extension Worker present or a traditional birth attendant. Postnatal sepsis and haemorrhage are the main reasons for the high mortality rate: remember it was 4.4 maternal deaths...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...adults and children actually need to see it happen in order to believe it. After the first cut, you should have a band that was twice as long as the original and half the width. The second cut produces two connected bands of the same length but half the width – a less obvious result. A useful general strategy for stimulating pupils’ curiosity and channelling the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs