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The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...Geography, Space and Politics in the Early Roman Empire, Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press. Grant, M. (trans.) (1996) Tacitus: the Annals of Imperial Rome, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. (First published 1956. Revised edition 1971. Revised with new bibliography 1989. Reprinted with revised bibliography 1996.) Wells, C. (1992) The Roman Empire (2nd edn; first...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...geography school books but had dominated every aspect of my life in Fiji … Now, I felt as if the Empire's stepchild had come ‘home’, even though I had only arrived to study on a Reuter's fellowship at Oxford. Although Fiji had shrugged off British colonial rule in 1970, … The Queen remained the constitutional head of Fiji … and Her Majesty continued to stare in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Abbie Barnes - Earth in Vision

...geography, the archaeology, so everything that makes them so unique, and then I will drop in the conservation messages and the wildlife messages within those films, because I know that I’ll be able to get a higher number of viewers. So I think for me the future is more adventure-based I suppose you could say, and then I’ll get the message in through that. Because I...
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Video 30 mins
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The C-change in GEES project was funded by HEFCE as part of the JISC/HE Academy UKOER programme and coordinated by the GEES Subject Centre. Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...geographies of empire to consider how mapping created imperial worlds. Session 2 Power will introduce you to different forms of power - military, ideological and cultural - and how they were exercised in relation to the establishment, justification, and management of empire. Session 3 Resistance will introduce you to different forms of resistance – military, everyday,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...geography. One way of thinking about purchasing power parity is to consider the local prices paid for a globalised product, and then relate the local prices to a “standardised” price, such as the price in dollars. A lighthearted and informal way of understanding this is to consider the “Big Mac Index”, introduced by The Economist magazine in 1986, which is...
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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...geography at the University of Cambridge and was revising hard for his A levels. At his school, Edward was head boy and popular among pupils and teachers. His younger brother and sister idolised him. “We didn’t attach any particular significance to it,” says Mallen of what he saw as merely a musical pause. “I think we just thought, ‘Well, the poor lad’s been...
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Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...geography last term. She has had problems attending school for many weeks now. Lily gets very angry with her parents and has a ‘meltdown’ when they try to force her to go to school and she has been in effect home-schooled for almost a whole term. Lily’s school is insisting on a return-to-school plan and her parents are finding it hard to agree about this. Activity 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs