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Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...English Channel] Figure 28 Gossamer Albatross. The first human-powered aircraft to cross the English Channel A further prize of £100,000 was offered by the Man-Powered Flight subcommittee of the Royal Aeronautical Society for the first human-powered flight across the English Channel to France. MacCready returned in 1979 and landed that prize with Gossamer Albatross...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...English...本免费课程是“助教:提供行动支持”课程的中文翻译版本,英文原版也在本网站中提供。 This free course is the Chinese version of Teaching assistants: support in action which is also available in English....Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese): Introduction - 助教以及类似的提供学习帮助的员工,是遍...
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...English); http://cdn.basw.co.uk/ upload/ basw_113012-10.pdf (p.6) (Welsh) (Accessed: 19 May 2021). British Association of Social Workers (BASW) (2012) ‘Code of Ethics for Social Work’, Available at http://www.basw.co.uk (Accessed: 19 May 2021). Croft, S. and Beresford, P. (2002) ‘Service users’ perspectives’ in Davies, M. (ed.) The Blackwell Companion to Social...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Rounding and estimation
Science, Maths & Technology

Rounding and estimation

...English mathematician Charles Babbage, father of modern computing, once wrote to Tennyson regarding one of his poems: ‘In your otherwise beautiful poem,’ Babbage wrote, ‘one verse reads, Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born. ‘If this were true, the population of the world would be at a standstill. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...English. Banlieues are generally suburban districts around the major French cities, but they do not equate with suburbs as the term is generally used in the UK. As French Marxist philosopher Etienne Balibar notes: There are banlieues and banlieues, often geographically very close to one another but separated by a social abyss and a permanent antagonism …: some are rich,...
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...English nation: a young football fan watches England v. Iceland We can see that the problem with so-called objective approaches to defining a nation is finding sound criteria by which one might judge which groups form nations and which do not. How can we weigh different histories, traditions, religions, languages? Any attempt at objective demarcation of national...
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...English and Welsh approach (Law Commission, 2011), but the government at the time declined to legislate. However, a subsequent practice directions (Criminal Practice Directions (2023) Footnote 8 covers much of the same ground and effectively requires courts to now perform an assessment of the reliability of proposed expert evidence. In the next activity, you will be asked...
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...English for academic purposes online...How to be a critical reader: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: consider the importance of examining attitudes to texts understand the organisation of argument texts distinguish between facts and opinions in texts examine hedging as a technique used by writers to express opinions and avoid making...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs