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Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...based languages like Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, Russian and Belarusian. View from a learner [Described image] Figure 6...Week 1: Greetings: 4.1 Breaking the alphabet down - You’ll learn the alphabet bit by bit. Each week, we’ll cover some different sounds, but if you can’t wait to explore it, here it is in full. Table 4: Ukrainian alphabet PRINTED LETTER NAME...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...based on peasant self-sufficiency, smallholdings, overpopulation on the land, primitive farming techniques, lack of capital investment and poor education. The general poverty of the countryside meant that the market for industrial goods was small and growth discouraged. For example, 40 per cent of Hungarians were poor peasants who lived at a minimum level of subsistence...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing
Education & Development

Professionals negotiating different ways of knowing

...based on what several other people researching, writing and thinking about the same subject have said in previous years. Professional knowledge is sometimes explicit but often people know more than they can articulate. They know with their hands and their bodies. It is usually expressed in action. It is communal, in as much as one person may contribute a particular part...
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Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...based economies. Examples of the radicals' vision include the experiments in local currencies that are outlined in the final part of this section. A radically precautionary approach is followed with regard to new technologies that carried apparent social or environmental risks, however small. [Figure 5] Figure 5 Corporate environmental and social reputations are a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of...
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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...based on the idea that how an individual leader acts depends on the nature of the situation in which they find themselves. Consequently, the most relevant and appropriate behaviours can vary greatly from situation to situation. As shown in the diagram in Figure 2, this model is based on the combination of both directive behaviours (i.e. those designed to help group...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their trilateral Syrian summit on April 4, the...
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Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...base. A technician swiftly opens it, revealing a small hole. Charles sniffs at it… and moves on. The hole is re-closed, and there’s a clink of metal as the next plate is yanked back. This time, Charles is gripped. He sniffs hard, scratching at the metal, the five claws on each paw splayed with the pressure. The technician calls out “Two!” Over by the window, her...
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