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Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...simple examples of surfaces in three-dimensional space. [Figure 3] Figure 3 Some simple examples of surfaces in three-dimensional space Since we are interested only in the surface of such objects, rather than the interior, you should always think of such objects as being hollow, rather than solid. Such surfaces, being subsets of 3, are given the subspace topology from 3....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...simple terms, it is a short-term way for a business to release funds that are blocked in the form of unpaid trade receivables by selling those debts on to a third-party factoring company at a discount. Debt factoring is particularly suitable to industries in which the production process is characterised by consistent delays in receiving payments for goods sold and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...simple issue to debate at any given time, and they are routinely faced with limited resources. In effect, decision makers have to prioritise. Scientists therefore need to communicate their science clearly and within the context of ‘real-world’ challenges. At times this may require them not to communicate, i.e. to be selective about which scientific evidence is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...simple rules for working it out. Some organizations, for example, say that if you're working and in their pension scheme for 40 years, you get a guaranteed 2/3, or 40/60, of your final or average salary paid for the rest of your life. And if you work for them for less than 40 years, you simply get a smaller proportion of it. You're lucky if you have a pension like this...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...simple questions. There are many contexts in our daily lives when we could answer them well enough. We speak common languages with people around us (and often with the same accent). Many of us live in neighbourhoods and recognise ‘neighbours’ as a distinctive group to which we belong. If we pray regularly in a mosque or church then we might identify ourselves with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...simple and open that there was no room in them for self-consciousness, and I have often heard him jest at his own misfortune, with a comic wonder at it. The personal characteristic that you would notice most on meeting Lewis Carroll was his extreme shyness. With children, of course, he was not nearly so reserved, but in the society of people of maturer age he was almost...
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Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...simple solution – RH: No, but you don’t disagree with that scenario that I’ve just painted, that we will overshoot and we will have to suck CO2 - BVB: The risk of overshoot is... Yeah, absolutely, I think that is the way it is looking at the moment. Now these scenarios are not a point that we are advocating for, this is what we thought when we created these...
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Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...simple two-up, two-down cob building. And in 1857 it was passed on to Thomas Hardy's father. And a separate cottage was built next door for his grandmother Mary. That was up for about 20 years as two individual cottages until 1857 when it was knocked through when she passed away and made into the one cottage that we have today. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR Hardy's father was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs