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Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...managing local water resources. a. Around 30% b. Around 50% c. Around 70% The correct answer is c. c. Yes, but 82% of people were wrong. While preventable infectious diseases and parasites are still waterborne, the majority of people have access to safe drinking water (WHO, 2019). This could be increased further by managing local water resources. Select the answer for...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Bill Hare - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill Hare - Stories of Change

...Managing Director/Senior Scientist of Climate Analytics,is interviewed by Roger Harrabin for 'Stories of Change'...[Bill Hare] Dr. (h.c) Bill Hare, CEO and Managing Director / Senior Scientist Bill Hare is co-founder of Climate Analytics, a physicist and climate scientist with 25 years’ experience in science, impacts and policy responses to climate change and...
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Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...management of social and cultural ‘dimensions’ of the language (Grenfell and Harris, 1999, p. 41). All of these aspects of target language use will need to be assessed as the students move towards becoming good language learners. In this context, making progress in language learning goes beyond simple knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures. Therefore,...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...manage their own matters and make their own important life decisions. Answer the following questions, in each case deciding whether the statement given is an example of paternalism or autonomy. 1. ‘Lily might not like it, but it’s what the adults think is best for her.’ Paternalism Autonomy a. Paternalism b. Autonomy The correct answer is a. Select the answer for...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...manage to get anywhere near bar-headed geese. Interviewer Well the journey itself must be fascinating, but when you get to the places, are they vast lakes or small lakes in the tundra? Lucy Hawkes We specifically target one big lake called Terkhiin Tsagaan Lake in Western Mongolia, because it's huge. It's one of the biggest lakes in Mongolia. And bar-headed geese go to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...management or operating system will take several hundred person-years of effort to produce, and after that a large team of engineers will be required to maintain and evolve the software. How will this be paid for? Developments in technology have made the need to protect intellectual property even more urgent. With software and now books, music and film available...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?
Society, Politics & Law

Could Bernie Sanders be the next American President?

...managers should be taxed more heavily. Should Trump actually be appointed President he would undoubtedly be a loose cannon, domestically and internationally. This could seriously damage the standing of the Party and the nation for a decade or more to come. But polls are beginning to show that the gap between him and the gaggle of Republican also-rans is now widening. The...
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Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate
Society, Politics & Law

Clinton / Trump: Two views of the first debate

...managing to work in the repulsive story of his calling a Latina pageant contestant, now an American citizen, “Miss Housekeeping” – a slur that won’t have been lost on Hispanic voters nationwide. By the end of the debate, it was clear Trump had been defeated. First he was knocked off balance by a simple recitation of the facts of his own past, then he was provoked...
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