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Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...de Silva, an anthropologist at Atlanta’s Emory College, tells me that in Japan, “The whole idea is that by one individual taking his or her life, so the honour is restored or the family member would be spared the shame.” “Other people’s evaluation adds an additional burden,” says Kim. A person’s shame could leak and stain those around them. Under past...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...table like the one below, with three columns and the headings: ‘Activity’, ‘Example of my communication’ and ‘Type of communication’. Now think about what you have done so far today. If you are working on this course early in the morning, think about what you did yesterday. Write down the first six things you did using any of the communication skills discussed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...table in your learning log of the services and resources available on the careers website, detailing what each resource provides and how you think it might be useful for your future career development. Career planning By now I hope it is clear that applying the techniques underpinning PDP to your career can help you to get where you want to go. The next activity will help...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...de Bondt, 1998). Even within the field of financial economics, there is increasing interest in developing theories of market behaviour which take better account of how people really make decisions (e.g. see Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...Table 1 shows my own evaluation of my goals. Table 1 Tita’s evaluations of her goals GOAL 1= realistic, easy to achieve 2= possible but challenging 3= not realistic in the time available REASONS Ordering a coffee 1 Realistic. I can achieve this easily, as the language is quite formulaic and predictable. Checking in at the hotel 1 Realistic. I can achieve this as long as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...table below. Table 1 Finding what business structure works for you Structure How would this work for me? What wouldn’t work for me Sole trader Partnership Limited liability partnership Limited company Social business Franchise Words: 0 Discussion It is impossible to give general feedback here about you, your circumstances or your idea without knowing what they are....
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...Table 1 below). This structure has significance for the spread of the virus and the severity of disease symptoms. Cases of influenza generally arise in two main ways: by provoking seasonal annual outbreaks or epidemics and, less commonly, through global pandemics. As you will see shortly, both of these phenomena occur as consequences of the fact that the virus uses RNA as...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...tables and scales out there to recognise how animals are feeling in terms of very simple things, like pain. When we’re making decisions about euthanasia: Is an animal unhappy? We have to make lots of questions about how they’re behaving. And we make subjective judgements on how they behave and whether they are happy, and whether quality of life is adequate. BIANCA I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs