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Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...everyday school life. Their first step in establishing their ways of working was to develop routines where staff regularly collaborated. They set up teams of five to seven-people who regularly met and developed plans for change. The principals looked for quick wins and small steps, rather than focussing upon what they viewed as bigger issues. At the heart of their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...English, essay writing, revision and exams, and other areas of study skills. As a student, the amount of numerical information that you will have to deal with varies greatly from course to course. Many courses with no mathematical, scientific or technical content still require you to be able to interpret and draw conclusions from tables and graphs, and understand basic...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...English language, with nearly 1,200 separate editions up to 1979. It also attracted imitations, which were produced in such large numbers that they form an identifiable genre known as the Robinsonade. Among the most famous of these Robinsonades were works like The Swiss Family Robinson by a Swiss clergyman Johann David Wyss, translated into English from German in 1814,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...ENGLISH PHRASE IN TAMIL PRONUNCIATION Hello வணக்கம். Vanakkam Are you well? நீங்கள் நலமாக இருக்கிறீர்களா? Neenkal Nalamaka Erukkirirkala? Yes, I’m fine ஆம், நான் நலமாக இருக்கிறேன். Aam, naan nalamaka erukkiren Thank you நன்றி. Nandhri You are welcome...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...English equivalent. For instance, you will find Achilles as well as Akhilleus, Thucydides as well as Thoukydides. The reason is that there are different conventions for transliterating words from Greek into the English alphabet. This course tends to use what is often called ‘Latinised’ spelling, for example, ‘c’ rather than ‘k’, and ‘ae’ rather than...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...everyday life – often revolve around the value ascribed to participation by experts and ordinary people alike. Participation as a topic attracts a great deal of attention from social scientists. The political scientist Patrick Chabal (2009) uses the word ‘partaking’ to capture the dual sense in which participation is important in social science: the idea of taking...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...everyday needs was formalised in the mid eighteenth century. What this meant in practice is best demonstrated by the case of easel painting, which had become the dominant pictorial form by 1600. Unlike an altarpiece or a fresco, this kind of picture has no fixed place; instead, its frame serves to separate it from its surroundings, allowing it to be hung in almost any...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?
Society, Politics & Law

Jury Decision-Making: What’s the Story?

...everyday decision making and specialist research into decision-making in the legal context that people make mistakes and they are sometimes subject to influences that we find objectionable. One way to identify such shortcomings is to do empirical research where we manipulate the counterfactuals (eg, by having one scenario with the item of interest and one without) and to...
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Article 5 mins