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Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...account for the presence of a single black child. The significance of the Waterloo Street group (Image 87) is that it features Robert Roberts who in later life wrote The Classic Slum, an account of life in Edwardian Salford that has become required reading for social historians of the period...Picturing the family: 6.3 Seaside photography - [New Brighton beach featuring...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...account, enrol on a course, shop using a loyalty card, use an electronic healthcare record (EHR) and so on. Your persona consists of all of this data, whether you're aware of it or not. That is what a ‘persona’ is: a ‘picture’ of you created by various collections of data about you, such as your finances, shopping habits, interests. How much of this persona of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...account. These processes have to be repeated to cover the entire duration of the recording. MP3 achieves high-quality audio reproduction at 128 kbit s−1. This contrasts markedly with the CD bit rate of 1.4112 Mbit s−1. MP3 generally achieves 10:1 compression without introducing notable subjective effects into the reconstructed sound. Incidentally, it is common to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...account not just the actions or beliefs of the individual in question, but also the contexts and environments in which they operated. This brings me onto another key theme in this section: the importance of the individual historical actor. The Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle suggested that ‘the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...Account, funded by the US government. Its role is to prepare land for future investment. IBRAHIM DIO: (Subtitles) The private companies that are involved in agricultural production help the economy in two ways. The first is when they produce rice, to replace imports. And Senegal spends a lot of money importing rice. Secondly, they contribute to exports. For example, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...account for less than about one-sixth of all matter. The majority is believed to consist of non-luminous 'dark matter', the nature of which is still uncertain...Galaxies, stars and planets: 7 'We are stardust' - How did the atoms in our bodies, the Earth, the Sun and other astronomical objects originate? This question is intimately tied with one of the most fundamental...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...account of the country by explaining that: The island of Britain is eight hundred miles long and two hundred broad. There are five languages, English, Brito-Welsh, Scottish, Pictish and Latin. The first inhabitants of this land were the Britons. (The Peterborough Chronicle, c.1150, translated in Freeborn, 2006, p. 13) So in the beginning, English was just one language...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...account of her reasons for working in schools. In response, she wrote: I have always wanted to work with children. I had experience of work relating to children, for example at camps and in clubs. I felt my experience as a mother and childminder was a good foundation from which to start. I was keen to look after my own children during school holidays and during...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs