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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...codes’ and ‘perfection codes’ deriving both from school culture and from wider social trends (Wooten, 2008). The study is an attempt to go beyond accounts of eating disorders that see them as having a purely psychological origin. Instead, the article places the development of anorexia within the varied contexts and settings of young people's lives. The authors focus...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...codes of conduct. . . They shall provide for effective enforcement, including when appropriate effective and proportionate sanctions.” It is not clear what exactly these “voluntary” measures under threat of State sanction would look like, or exactly how they relate to the Directive’s other enumerated obligations. Now What? Importantly, this is a first draft....
A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth
Society, Politics & Law

A Black feminist approach to explore the policing of Black youth

...coded repertoire of white sanctioned behaviours that psychosocially regulates and controls her Black child. Criminalisation and policing – do Black Lives Matter? Contemporary UK statistics evidence the use of restraint found to be more prevalent in cases of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) people who have died in police custody than in deaths of white people. Black...
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...code on the numeric keypad; you may need to have the Num Lock on for this to work. Note: you cannot use the number keys above the letters; if your keyboard does not have a numeric keypad (and some laptops do not), then this option is not available to you. The number codes to use are in this ‘Accented character number codes’ document. In Microsoft Word, on the...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...simple day-to-day transactions from buying a bus ticket or a cup of coffee, to more complicated matters such as employment, paying taxes, renting a home and how businesses operate. It even provides the guidelines which determine how a government may use its powers to rule. What is a law? How do we recognise laws and why are they obeyed? It is important that we decide what...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...simple: eliminates the need for air versatile: tire stiffness can be designed to limit energy transferred to vehicle lightweight: no inner frame needed for the tire/wheel assembly. (NASA, n.d.) NASA’s capacity to be creative in the face of non-negotiable constraints led to the development of a radically different type of tyre. It is not hard to imagine that in the...
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...simples. Listen to the first 25 seconds of the clip featuring Yann Renard (up to ‘Amboise’). Correct the following summary of what Yann says: Yann a 55 ans et il est directeur d’une école secondaire. Il travaille dans cette école depuis trente ans et il habite au centre-ville d’Amboise. Answer Yann a 56 ans et il est directeur d’une école primaire. Il...
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...simple physical examination. Not surprisingly, they saw no value in bringing to the bedside the skills and knowledge acquired in the laboratory. One of the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital was reported to have told his students, ‘When you enter my wards your first duty is to forget all your physiology. Physiology is an experimental science and a very good thing no...