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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...class gradients in health in the UK, with the lowest socio-economic groups having much worse life expectancy and health than the highest socio-economic groups. The majority of researchers would probably agree with the statement because of the influence the report has had in shaping policy since its publication, firstly in trying to dismiss Black’s findings and then in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...De Smet et al., 2021) states reinvention is needed, and proposes the following nine imperatives that future-ready companies will exhibit. [Described image] (De Smet et al., 2021) Figure 7 Nine organisational imperatives for future-ready companies The trends and imperatives may be areas you already consider, however, delivering such a strategy requires embarking on a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...variables. For instance, there is a correlation between increasing obesity and increasing levels of socio-economic deprivation in adult women in Scotland, such that women in the most deprived areas of Scotland are more likely to be obese relative to women in the least deprived areas of Scotland. Among men in Scotland the results are less conclusive (Scottish Government,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...de Maupertuis proposed the spontaneous generation and extinction of organisms as part of his theory of origins. However, he advanced no theory of evolution. Georges-Louis Leclerc, a prominent naturalist of the time, explicitly considered, and rejected, the possible descent of several species from a common ancestor. The physician Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles...
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Article 30 mins
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...classed as a 'sudden' change, because it is how the property changes as you move along the temperature axis that is being described. Gradual changes are modelled in terms of the average thermal energy of the particles of the system. During a gradual change (of a property with temperature) doubling the change of temperature, say up ten degrees rather than up five degrees,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...de Montaigne, a French philosopher, developed the essay form in the 16th century. The term itself derives from the French word essai meaning ‘testing’ or ‘trying out’. The purpose was (and still remains): To try out or test a proposition or ideas in the context of other thinkers and in the light of personal experience and judgement. In Montaigne's day, the idea of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...class life (1957), a semiautobiographical examination of the cultural upheavals of the 1950s, Richard Hoggart recalled his upbringing in Leeds. “Every so often one heard that so-and-so had ‘done ’erself in’, or ‘done away with ’imself’, or ‘put ’er ’ead in the gas-oven’,” he wrote. “It did not happen monthly or even every season, and not all...
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Article 15 mins
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...de’ (French) or ‘de’ (Italian) and that means you don’t actually need a genitive case and so on. JC Right. GH These are all things that are sort of there in classical Latin but certain options have been removed and certain other options that, the potential at least of those options, has now been exploited. Disappearance of Latin James Clackson So these are all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs