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Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...Write a sentence or two to summarise in general terms the context in which quantum computers are considered to be an improvement on classical computers. Answer Your answer will not be the same but a possible answer is: Quantum computers may be able solve some problems more quickly than classical computers if problem solving algorithms which have exponential run-times on a...
Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to UK immigration law and becoming an immigration adviser

...writing, typing ‘Who is the Immigration Services Commissioner’ into a search engine produced more than 400,000 results; the first one reveal that John Tuckett was re-appointed to the role of Immigration Services Commissioner on 7 July 2024 for a second term of 5 years. You may have found that the IAA originates from three key acts: Immigration and Asylum Act 1999...
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...write on the whiteboard, and they also have a kind of text chat, which they can use to communicate with me, and also with each other. I suppose you might call that a kind of back channel. It's available within the system. As well as using the classroom software to actually deliver the classes, there's also a VLE, which allows me to store useful resources for my students...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...write about my depression, that it must be very difficult to be out of that closet to have people know. They said 'Do people talk to you differently?' And I said 'Yes, people talk to me differently. They talk to me differently insofar as they start telling me about their experience, or their sister's experience, or their friend's experience.' Things are different because...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...writing of a novel, the invention of some new device, or the writing of software? These intangibles are known as intellectual property – property that has resulted from the work of the intellect. Most people in the West now agree that these have tangible value that needs to be protected and regulated. The argument is that if we did not do this, people would stop...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...writing and interviewing techniques since 2002." Transcript Amanda Theunissen Wildscreen, 20th – 23rd October 2014 Earth in Vision Project My name is Amanda Theunissen and I suspect I’m here because way back in the eighties I used to edit Nature, which was the BBC’s only environmental strand. It came from the Natural History Unit but they didn’t have any...
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...writing in 1801, “who does not accept the clear fact that the greatest possible number of law-abiding and hard-working men constitutes the happiness, strength and wealth of any state”. Statesmen and public-spirited individuals therefore devoted attention to building this healthy population. It was the productivity puzzle of the 18th century. Clearly, to do this...
Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...write the story, they will spend six months or a year researching what they’re going to shoot. So if they did say, ‘By the way we’re going to shoot an environmental aspect of this,’ then it would have had to have had it written in the script, it would have been part of the script, and at some part or other there would be a debate or question about why it’s going...