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Should we educate prisoners?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we educate prisoners?

...adult prisoners report having been permanently excluded from school. Out of 101,600 learners, under the previous OLASS (Offenders’ Learning and Skills Service) contracts for prison education, only 100 prisoners participated in a full Level 3 course (equivalent to ‘A’ level) in 2014/15, with none participating at Level 4 which is equivalent to first-year...
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Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...adult LGBTQ+ asylum seekers/refugees. A decade ago, the late Ray Harvey Amer, a retired registered mental health nurse, saw a need for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to have support. Many asylum seekers were coming to Croydon as the Home Office base is there. Ray set up a group called Rainbows Across Borders, welcoming anyone who needed help and support in relation to persecution...
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Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do I have mental health problems and should I get some help?

...adults with anxiety and depression, both in individual sessions and in group-based format. However, there can be waiting lists for IAPT and for other state-funded forms of therapy. For those with the funds available to pay for treatment, websites like welldoing.org can assist people to find a therapist. [mental health counselling cartoon ] 5: A lack of hope Hope is of...
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Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...adults can approach racial dialogues with young people and how this will benefit children and their families in the long term. Transcript Do Black lives matter is contemporary sport? An update An update on the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic individuals in sport. Transcript Transculturation of the Black radical movement of hip hop Kulture in India Hip...
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Video 3 hrs
Exploring innovative assessment methods
Education & Development

Exploring innovative assessment methods

...care for children and adults with additional needs, including the support given to overcome challenges to daily living. Typed answer Considering ethics and child protection and GDPR issues: the learner could create a five-minute digital story that explains how they witnessed and understood these ideas in their work experience. The learners create an instructive PowerPoint...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...care needs. Even if your planned retirement date is several years away, for now estimate your spending based on current prices. State pensions are increased each year to allow for inflation and other pensions are also, usually at least partially, ‘inflation-proofed’ by annual increases. When you have assessed your spending, add on 5 per cent to the total. At all...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...careful look and not gloss over the details that the climate system offers in terms of information from all components of the climate system. We have learnt in our recent assessment that the ocean is a fantastic integrator of climate signals and over 90 per cent of the energy absorbed by the earth's system is residing and integrated in the ocean. Clearly visible in the...
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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...caring, if you like, with the modern form of storytelling as well, of sort of beginning, middles and ends, heroes, jeopardy, separation, all these things that make amazing stories, once you’ve got people caring, what then, what next? And I think we’re on that curve now and I think that is the agenda, is what next? It might well be that the digital space is the answer....
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