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Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...English colonisation of Ireland and associated religious conflicts in the 17th century. These conflicts are still simmering below the surface and there is widespread worry that it would not take much to resurrect them (like a hard border for instance). Two solutions to the border issue have been suggested. One involves having a soft border arrangement whereby commodity...
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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...English schools are added to the mix, together with remodelling and the changes to the 14 – 19 phase. For details of the bursar's key role in this process visit Bursar's role in remodelling [accessed 26 January 2007]. Admittedly, there is no ‘one size fits all’ business manager (or bursar) role. The position and responsibilities vary immensely between schools. So,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...English spelling). Protons, atoms and molecules are too small to be measured in this way. virus bacteria red blood cell plant cell flea ladybird human being the Earth star solar system galaxy universe (largest) Learning about these things as separate topics means children don’t get a sense of the size of things that cannot be seen by the naked eye, or are so large that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...everyday life. This free course, Systems modelling, will introduce you to the modelling process, enabling you to recognise that systems models may be used in different ways as part of a process for: improving understanding of a situation; identifying problems or formulating opportunities and supporting decision making...Maps and plans, architects and engineers, drawings,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...English Dictionary. Click below to view the four images refered to in the exercise. a207_7exercise.pdf3.3MB PDF document Discussion Holland's Marine Pavilion is notably symmetrical in conception. The original farmhouse has vanished into the left-hand wing of the new structure, which is now mirrored by an identical right-hand wing with matching bays. The composition is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...everyday life. I find social commentator and cartoonist Michael Leunig's depiction of a solitary figure looking through an ‘understandascope’ (Figure 2) a particularly skilled way of capturing the sense of bewilderment I sometimes feel. For the purposes of Sections 4–7 I am using his cartoon featuring the ‘understandascope’ because it raises a number of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...everyday reading habits. Private Collection/Bridgeman Art Figure 4 Waiting for the Times, 1831, by Benjamin Robert Haydon UK RED contains evidence from a large number of manuscript and published journals, diaries, autobiographies and memoirs. Many are from famous individuals, such as Pepys. But the database also contains evidence of reading from a large number of diaries...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...English syntax and you say to them, ‘What contemporary poets have you read?’ and they haven’t read any. So I, I’d say that that was very important. And to go to readings, to go and hear people read; there’s a huge amount of literary festivals now all over the place that they could go and hear live poetry readings, because hearing a poet read their own work gives...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs