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Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...English Literature Part 1....Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction: Introduction - English Literature reached new mass audiences in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century, as widespread literacy, and a lack of competition from other media – cinema and radio were in their infancy – encouraged commercial diversification and the...
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...everyday life. For some people, the idea of religious literacy is more related to the idea of understanding their own religious tradition better. However, in religious studies, we understand this idea much more broadly. Religious literacy has been described as a ‘civic endeavour … aimed at enabling people of all faiths and none to engage with the increasing plurality...
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...everyday practice with children and young people reflect critically on the implications for your own practice of the diverse social identities of the children and young people that you work with or support demonstrate an awareness of some practical strategies for working in an inclusive and participatory way with children and young people...Working with diversity in...
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...English Two A-levels (post-16 higher examination) or equivalent Certificate or Diploma in Management Qualification certificates Membership of professional body Membership of professional institute Documentation Experience, training and skills Five years’ experience in purchasing Ten years’ experience in purchasing Curriculum vitae (CV) Two years’ experience of...
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...English Dictionary, ‘environment’ derives from the mediaeval French environnement used to describe the action of surrounding something and also to refer to surroundings and periphery. Today, ‘environment’ is often used to mean: The physical surroundings or conditions in which a person or other organism lives, develops, etc., or in which a thing exists; the...
Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...everyday to higher-level geographical ideas, such as interdependence) or belong to another category entirely (Brooks, 2013, pp. 76–80). Like you, students will possess their own understanding of geographical concepts and their own lists. There is no one definitive list of concepts and no correct categorisation of concepts. However, thinking about the world we inhabit in...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...everyday lives go unnoticed...An introduction to material culture: Everyday objects - How did you start the day this morning? You might have started it, like I did, to the sound of a clock radio alarm, with the handle of a teacup in one hand and a bowl of cereal in the other. These objects – the clock radio, the teacup, the bowl – are unremarkable objects, in the...
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...everyday speech and academic usage. You may encounter the two words used in a variety of ways, in connection with different subjects, and they won’t always mean exactly the same thing. In the following sections we will explore the shifting meanings and associations of ‘voice’ and ‘text’, and then examine the way the two terms come together in a particular kind...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr