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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer, with some brief explanation for question (c). For question (b), you could record your immediate feelings about the works represented, using one-word answers (for example, ‘happy’ or ‘confused’) rather than complete sentences. Comment Your response to each question will depend largely on your taste and background. I am guessing,...
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...simple expressions as follows. For pressure: cap p divided by cap p sub zero equals left parenthesis one minus z divided by z sub cap c right parenthesis super 5.256 Equation label: (Equation 1) where cap p is the absolute pressure, cap p sub zero (= cap p sub atm ) is the standard sea-level value of 101.3kPa, z is the altitude under consideration and z sub cap c is a...
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...simple timeline of the main stages in the history of the Universe...Unsolved problems in cosmology: 1.1 The expanding Universe - The first piece of evidence for the hot big bang was the discovery in 1927 by Edwin Hubble and (independently) by Georges Lemaître that the further away galaxies are, the faster they appear to be receding from us. The apparent speed of...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...simple example, if you invest £20 000 in a project for which you estimate that the positive net cash flow each year – that is, the excess of cash inflows over cash outflows – will be £5000, you expect to recover your initial investment in 20 000 divided by 5000 equals four years Even if the net cash flow varies year by year, it is just as simple to calculate the...
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...simple everyday text, it provides an opportunity to exercise analytical thinking skills. The process of looking at the structure and parts of something in the way we have done here is what we mean by analysis. The text also illustrates the ideas of having a point or a case you wish to prove, and providing evidence and reasons to support it - together these form what the...
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...simple terms, they believe that it is possible to quantify and therefore measure, in a research context most aspects of life. For instance: Basic descriptive statistics can often be used to describe a population by comparing, for instance, different age ranges. For example, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that around 15.1% of people aged 18 years and...
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...Code breaking – learning how to apply personal resources of ‘know-how’ in working together to solve customer problems, create new opportunities and change internal procedures. Authorising – learning to make choices between options on a cost-benefit basis and gaining approval from the appropriate line authority. Diffusing – learning how to circulate and share new...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...simple knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures. Therefore, monitoring and assessment strategies need to support students as they become increasingly independent users of the target language. For Grenfell and Harris, this means an emphasis on ‘learning to learn’ and approaching language learning from a different direction that focuses on the learner – their...