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Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...write a great deal about adaptation. It is important to note that, at the time when Darwin was writing, there was no knowledge of the mechanism for a crucial aspect of his theory, the passing of characters from parents to offspring. Darwin was aware that inheritance is a fundamental feature of living things, but he had no knowledge of DNA or chromosomes. In this , we will...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...write down the names of the drinks in Italian. Listen to a group of friends ordering drinks from a waitress and try to identify what drinks they are ordering. Cameriera Buongiorno. Prego. Paolo Vorrei una birra. Anna Per me, un caffè. Tommaso Un bicchiere di vino bianco. Marisa Un tè. Filippo Un succo di frutta. Cameriera Va bene. Una birra, un caffè, un bicchiere di...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...writing a document or preparing a board paper or whatever it might be, it used to be in the office, you'd never get any chance to do that because you're constantly busy, in meetings, talking to people, doing things. Now I think that's completely changed because the expectation now, or at least the behaviour, whether it's expectation or not, I'm not sure, but the behaviour...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...Write two or three sentences in the box below. Click ‘Save’ when you are satisfied with what you have written...Week 1: The basics of food: 1.1 What are the reasons for eating? - Food provides the energy that our bodies need to keep going. Without food, a person would typically survive for a few weeks. Without water, they could only live for a few days. In developed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...write down the boundary number β. [Figure 24] Figure 24 Answer (a) β = 1; (b) β = 4; (c) β = 1 To find the boundary numbers of paper surfaces, it is convenient to use coloured pens to trace around the boundary. Doing this, we find that the two boundary numbers of the surfaces in Figure 22 are β = 4 and β = 3, as shown in Figure 25. [Figure 25] Figure 25 Problem 8...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...writing around 400 BC The young people of today … have bad manners, they scoff at authority and lack respect for their elders. Children nowadays are real tyrants … they contradict their parents … they tyrannise their teachers The Daily Post on 29 May 2013 Yobs destroy children’s scarecrows in ‘mindless wrecking rampage’ Sir Keith Joseph Member of Parliament...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working with young people: roles and responsibilities
Education & Development

Working with young people: roles and responsibilities

...writing of the application forms? SHAMS [03.54] No good. ANDREW [03.55] Alright then, Ok, well we can work on that, certain ways to write them isn’t there? SHAMS [04.01] Yeah ANDREW [04.02] …you know, and er, a lot of forms are very similar, I mean if we go down Tescos and get a form or someat…..and practice on it. SHAMS Hmm. ANDREW It’ll be alright….do that....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...write concerning the death of our late friend, Mr Hume, brought upon me ten times more abuse than the very violent attack I had made upon the whole commercial system of Great Britain [i.e. Smith's The Wealth of Nations, 1776, a groundbreaking work in economics]. (Quoted in Scott, 1937, p. 283)...David Hume: 2.1 Working through the section - This section examines Hume's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs