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Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...concepts - We can conclude that the ideas relating to idealization, positive characterization and sexual stereotyping had a significant influence on the treatment of all 4 components of the portrait: expression, pose, background accessories and lighting. Victorian family photographs (like most other primary sources) are therefore selective, partial and biased. Early...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...concept will be useful for picturing other numbers, as well as whole numbers...Numbers, units and arithmetic: 1.4 Decimals - Quantities can be smaller than one (such as 0.5 kg) or take values between whole numbers (such as a height of 1.65 metres). Numbers smaller than one are expressed as decimals or as fractions. Decimals are often easier to work with (especially when...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...concept of entropy, topics beyond the learning outcomes for this block, so I do not propose to delve deeper. What is important for now is that some characteristics of materials switch abruptly at a critical temperature, whereupon a change of phase occurs...Engineering: The challenge of temperature: 5.4 Critical modelling - Critical phenomena are the simplest to model of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...concepts like Pythagoras’ theorem. He was born on a Greek island called Samos in the sixth century BCE. He was also, famously in the ancient world, a committed vegetarian. Pythagoras believed in an idea known as metempsychosis – the idea that souls are immortal, and at the time of death pass from one living being into another. It was for this reason, he argued, that...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The gut microbiome: balancing the body
Science, Maths & Technology

The gut microbiome: balancing the body

...Concept, wildpixel / Getty Images; sk299_T12_Video1.1_Slidecast_3_Cuisine Culinary Buffet Dinner Catering Dining Food Celebration, _jure / Getty Images; sk299_T12_Video1.1_Slidecast_2_Beating heart, 3DME PTY LTD / Science Photo Library; sk299_T12_Video1.1_Slidecast_5_There are decreases in reproductive hormone production, Claus Lunau/Science Photo Library;
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...concepts. Income is a flow of money received over time – such as salary or benefit payments. An income flow might be, say, £24,000 per year, or the same amount could be expressed as £2000 per month, or £462 per week. Wealth is a stock of assets owned and valued at a particular point in time. There are several ways of categorising these assets. The Office for National...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...concepts such as intelligibility, fluency, foreign accent, language variation, articulation and acoustics. By the end of this week you will have: considered the differences between intelligibility and foreign accent reflected on your own practice and the most challenging points for your students...Week 1 Why teach pronunciation?: 1 Why teach pronunciation? - It can hardly...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...concepts learnt in this session so far to interpret real company data. Activity 7 Calculating profitability ratios Timing: Allow 30 minutes Access Next Plc accounts for the years ending 2022 and 2021. Look at the contents page of the annual report and locate the ‘Consolidated Income Statement’ and ‘Consolidated Balance Sheet’ to obtain the relevant financial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs