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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Techniques to separate carbon from fossil fuels when they are used to provide energy for any purpose, but particularly for power stations and energy-intensive industries. Carbon can be removed from the fuel before combustion or from the waste gases after combustion. In both cases it is extracted in the form of carbon dioxide, which is then transported to a storage site,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...techniques and technologies. And so, as al-Qaeda made good use of the power of the internet, so they all started to do it. And so, we see other sort of groups, separatist terrorist groups, modern anarchist terrorist groups, there are many of them in the world, there are several hundred, if you try to list them all as, say, the American CIA do, they all use cyber power....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...technique that has been used to reduce newborn deaths. The Save the Children report, ‘State of the World’s Mothers 2013’, that you read from in the previous section, explores it’s use in the USA. You will read an extract from the report below. [Described image] Figure 6 What can be done to reduce first-day deaths in the United States and elsewhere in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...techniques for leading groups include: attending to individuals and responding to feelings seeking information, and when required giving information negotiating, re-negotiating, and reinforcing the group agreement gatekeeping the boundaries and expectations of the group focusing the group to keep on task when necessary modelling appropriate behaviour, responses, and group...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...techniques to help them hear children, respect their views and value their experiences. In times of distress and strain around a crime or some other form of harm, this is even more important. Children’s lives, especially those that come to the attention of the Hearings system, can be full of challenges. Most children are referred to the system on welfare grounds and,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...techniques and strategies to use in the classroom. I enjoy being close to the children - being with them and the care and protection we can offer them. Often a child looks for someone that can protect them, they want to feel loved, maybe that’s missing for them. In a similar way that we defend our children at home, we defend our children in school, like lions. This is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...technique for retaining information is to note down the key words. These are the terms, dates and names that summarize what has been said. Try to do this with any of the reading or listening passages (e.g. the documentary) that you have come across. When you see these words again, they will remind you of the information around them...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around:...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...techniques to analyse ice cores can tell you about dust and pollen in the atmosphere, past volcanic activity, and even the industrial production of civilisations long past. For example, Figure 11 shows the concentrations of lead in the ice of different ages, and compares it with the recorded production of lead starting with the discovery of ‘cupellation’ (separating...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs