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Introduction to adolescent mental health Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...centrality of friendships lasts throughout adolescence but falls off by late adolescence when the importance of belonging to a crowd or a particular group is replaced by the need to become part of a more intimate relationship. In the next activity, you’ll think about elements of adolescent relationships...Session 2: Understanding adolescence: 1.4 Adolescence and emotion...
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work). Where the breadth of the powers of the Scottish Parliament and/or Scottish Ministers would be enhanced in a manner that could not be achieved unilaterally through an Act of the Scottish Parliament (for example, conferral of functions in relation to railways). Box 8 Legislative and Public Bodies Act consent...
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...central peaks as shown in the animation by a process called ‘elastic rebound’ (a similar rebound process occurs when water droplets hit the surface of a body of water). Central peaks are not seen in lunar craters bigger than about 200 km because they have subsided under their own weight, but peaks remain frozen in place in smaller craters where they are still visible...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...central to fostering a climate of learning in an organisation – learning from past mistakes (rather than ‘shoving them under the carpet’ or creating a ritualistic ‘blame game’), and encouraging team members to be creative and to harvest ideas from other organisations that may help their own organisation to increase its effectiveness in the longer term. [A photo...
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...Central Avenue of the Great Hall of Columns, Karnak’, colour lithograph, from Roberts, David (1846) Egypt and Nubia: from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts … with historical descriptions by William Brockedon, London, Moon. Stapleton Collection Photo: Museum of Fine Arts Boston/Bridgeman Art Library Figure 5 Jean-Léon Gérome, Moorish Bath, 1870, oil on...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...central component. And really creating science that's centred on people. SUBJECT 7 So I think the history of citizen science gives us a lot of interesting lessons for today's citizen science. It tells us that what you need is not just reaching out to the public, but you also need educating scientists, scientists who understand the questions and the issues that the public...
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...central carbon atom is linked to three adjacent carbons rather than one (Figure 16). Their physical properties are slightly different, for example their boiling points differ by 10 °C, but otherwise they are very similar compounds. Drawing the possible structures (or using structural models) of the isomers gives 3 isomers for pentane, 5 for hexane, 9 for heptane, and so...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...central to Keynes’s system that it is worth quoting at some length from the pamphlet that he wrote with Henderson: It is not possible to measure effects of this character with any sort of precision, and little or no account of them is, therefore, taken in ‘We Can Conquer Unemployment’. But, in our opinion, these effects are of immense importance. For this reason we...