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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...simple and short. Occasionally you will be asked more unpredictable or ‘off the wall’ questions such as: What were you like as a child? If you were a biscuit what would you choose to be? If you could ban something, what would it be? Often the interviewer does not really want to know the answer. They simply want to see how you might deal with something unexpected. They...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...simple styles allowed for the tremendous expansion of the ready-to-wear market across Europe. By the mid-1920s, Konfektion (ready-to-wear) had become an essential branch of the German economy, and by 1927 there were 800 firms located in Berlin alone employing more than one-third of the city’s workforce (Ganeva, 2008, p. 4). The industry increased the choice that was...
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...codes of conduct and particular guidelines. Becoming familiar with these is vital if you are to get the most out of being a member of any online group which uses an online learning forum. In addition, there are commonly held principles which are seen to constitute good online behaviour. These are collectively referred to as netiquette (net etiquette). Although the basic...
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...simple. We know, through experience and research, that approaches to behaviour management may work with one class one week, but then not have the same impact the following week. We also know that how young people behave is built on a complex cocktail of individual and group dynamics and circumstances, and the nature of the curriculum they are engaged with. This level of...
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...simple closed question – one which will lead to the answer oui (‘yes’) or non (‘no’) – by using the basic sentence form but changing your intonation. Vous aimez le fromage. (Statement of fact; intonation goes down at end of sentence). Vous aimez le fromage ? (Question; intonation goes up at end of sentence). Such sentences have the same grammatical form as a...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing research in law and beyond
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing research in law and beyond

...simple decision tree. Note that in the diagram, decision points are shown as circles with the possible choices on the right...Introducing research in law and beyond: 2.6 Using drawing techniques - The use of a research diary, mind maps, cause and effect diagrams and decision trees have been suggested to help you produce three possible research questions. You will do this...
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...simple or dogmatic conclusions’. The PUEC evaluation suggests that the group discussion process helps in developing relevant, transferable personal skills related to decision making, such as constructive discussion, negotiation and consensus building. Set against this, there are also some concerns that the game process itself is complex and that this might on occasion...
Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...simple ‘recipes’ to remember. A hadron can consist of either: Three quarks (in which case it is called a baryon). Three antiquarks (in which case it is called an antibaryon). One quark and one antiquark (in which case it is called a meson). Figure 2 The three recipes for building hadrons from quarks. Quarks and antiquarks with a charge of two-thirds that of a proton...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs