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Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...account, widening your own experience and enjoying it too. Remember that language changes over the years. I've deliberately chosen to discuss poems from different periods, and given dates of first publication. Do keep this in mind, especially as you may find some examples more accessible than others. The idiom and register of a poem written in the eighteenth century will...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...account. The second point puts forward one's nation as a core of value; the third is about the creation of varied markers of centre and periphery; borders, government institutions and others that embody, and which make real, what the ideology has imagined. Freeden rightly warns that this set of concepts cannot be used to explain a great deal in itself. It is necessarily a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...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
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...account by calculating the volume of oxygen consumed for a particular amount (or mass) of animal. Volumes of a gas such as oxygen would be measured in millilitres (ml), or the numerically equivalent unit, cubic centimetres (cm3). The mass of the animal would be measured in grams (g), or perhaps in thousandths of a gram, i.e. milligrams (mg). In practical terms, oxygen...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...accounted for up to 40% of global CO2 emissions in each of those years. In general, there are three categories of fire severity: low severity surface fires high severity stand replacement fires mixed severity fires. Low severity surface fires (Figure 2) are usually frequent and burn surface fuels at low intensities, causing low understory vegetation mortality. They are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...Accountability: it’s easier to live unconsciously; it’s easier to live through other people; it’s easier to give responsibility for your happiness or success to someone or something else. Negativity: self-awareness takes a lot of work; it’s difficult to break habits; self-awareness is intangible; people don’t see the value in getting to know themselves. (adapted...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...account for the longer, narrow face of mainland subspecies compared to Svalbard reindeer. The insulating properties of furs and feathers can be easily compared by wrapping pelts around heated objects such as bars and measuring their rate of cooling under various conditions. Such observations indicate that in still air, the insulation of all coats of fur or feathers is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...accounted for 7% of global electricity demand in 2012, but could be as high as 12% in 2017. Activity 2 Find the current figures for the power consumption of computers and computer systems. Compare them with these historic figures. Have the trends between 2012 and 2017 continued? Has the proportion of energy spent on manufacture continued to decline, while the proportion...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs