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Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...account how much tax will be deducted from your gross income. What about tax? While up to 25% of your pension pot can be taken tax-free, the other 75% counts as taxable income if it is taken as a lump sum payment. Any annual income you take – for example from an annuity you buy with your pension pot – will also count as taxable income. Income tax will apply when your...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...account for some cases of obesity involve the possibility that some of our ancestors might have had adaptive responses to nutritional shortages. One of the most interesting of these explanations is known as the 'thrifty phenotype’ hypothesis (Ozanne and Hales, 2002); it suggests that poor fetal nutrition leads to adaptive changes in physiology that prepare an adult for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...accounts for the egalitarian view often held of poetry – a view which doesn’t seem to apply in the same way to opera-singing or carpentry, for example. If you sing, does that make you an opera singer? Certainly if you nail together a few pieces of wood that doesn’t mean anyone would want to hire you to build their house. With poetry, as with any other craft, there...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...account describes a flourishing trade in patent medicines. Everyone seems to buy remedies – even the very poor, who can buy a few pills for a halfpenny – and to take them frequently. Medicines were taken routinely, to counter constipation and as tonics to strengthen the body, as well as to treat illnesses. The remedies claimed to treat a huge range of complaints,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...account of our inner lives, rather than to scientists? There is something in this. If we want descriptions of what consciousness is like – the subtle shades of perception, sensation, emotion and thought – then a reductive explanation is likely to leave us cold. This is true across the board. An account of how a phenomenon is constituted will not tell us much about how...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...account, and opened another somewhere else, just to be sure. Thus the danger passed. But some time during the next few months, Will realized slowly and unwillingly that those enemies of his mother’s were not in the world out there, but in her mind. That made them no less real, no less frightening and dangerous; it just meant he had to protect her even more carefully....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...account for this – compared with same period in previous year reported crime actually rose by 17%, 44% of locals felt safer, but 84% would not enter certain areas – a rise. Critics, eg Save the Children in Scotland, argue the scheme is a violation of young people's rights and question its success. Government support for scheme. Strathclyde chief constable recognized...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...account for each player’s item. [Mini shopping trolley filled with a piee of card which reads ‘Ideas’.] Similarly, when you write for academic purposes, you are not only permitted but often encouraged to draw upon the works of others. For example, you may have come across the quote attributed to Isaac Newton in 1675, ‘If I have seen further it is by standing on...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs