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What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...accounting for the concentration of all the different ions. By changing the ionic strength of the mobile phase, the ions in Figure 7 are eluted, or extracted into the mobile phase (here water), from the stationary phase. The ions bound by the stationary phase are eluted in order of the strength of binding, the most weakly bound ions being eluted first. The binding...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...accounts, small side-businesses, or part-time volunteering/charity work. You need to show how you meet employer requirements but also how you try to develop yourself. Finally, don’t forget how things have changed in the hybrid workplace. In the video above, Jessica Leigh Jones gave advice about key skills for work-from-anywhere organisations. Mentioning key hybrid...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...account in preparing a talk: experiences members of the audience have had, events they have lived through and their cultural reference points. Gender Gender differences vary widely from country to country, among political and religious communities and within different age groups. At the most basic level, no talk should make assumptions about life experiences, biases or...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...account for a range of social patterns. For example, for many years women's exclusion from education was justified on the grounds that they didn't need to know anything beyond being a wife and mother, because stimulation of the brain would drain energy that should be devoted to the tasks of reproduction. Equally, men's behaviour has been interpreted as the product of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...account, the benefits and the costs. RH: OK, let me finally ask you because this is the last question we’re asking everybody, what level of optimism have you got, there are risks involved, you’ve admitted, possibly tipping points, possibly overshooting the 2ᵒ, how optimistic are you that humanity will fare well through this enterprise? BP: Oh, I’m totally...
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Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...account all the investment that we already have that’s going to last the decades. BM: Yes, yes. Well no one’s talking about shutting down … I mean, there’s no possible way to shut down everything tomorrow that we’re already doing. But new investment’s the interesting question, right? And if we’re installing 50% of new capacity for our renewables then it’s...
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Teaching secondary geography
Education & Development

Teaching secondary geography

...account? Whose views are ignored? Who or what is responsible for the problem? How are ecological and economic costs and benefits evaluated and compared? How will a solution be found?...Teaching secondary geography: 4.2 Teaching approaches to controversial issues - Almost any topic can become controversial if individual groups offer differing explanations about events,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...account of the mass mobilisation of the war effort (for a good summary of this within the broader context, see McAleer, 1992, pp. 53–4). Detection was one such potential horizon, and the demand for detective stories from female readers was particularly strong. Rzepka has noted that the ‘prominence of the New Woman’ as well as the popularity of Conan Doyle’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs