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Improve your everyday maths for free
Science, Maths & Technology

Improve your everyday maths for free

...University has teamed up with charity National Numeracy to enable everyone to boost their confidence with numbers using the National Numeracy Challenge...[National Numeracy Challenge logo] National Numeracy is an independent charity working to improve numeracy across the UK. The National Numeracy Challenge is a free website to help you check and improve the maths you use...
Rhyolite
Science, Maths & Technology

Rhyolite

...University's Science courses and qualifications Rhyolite is a fine-grained extrusive igneous rock or volcanic rock. It is pale coloured, often light grey, tan or pinkish. Rhyolite is made up of quartz and feldspar crystals, and occasionally contains some mafic (dark coloured) minerals. Usually the crystals are too small to see without magnification, but occasionally...
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Write around the world - the map!
History & The Arts

Write around the world - the map!

...University's Creative writing courses and qualifications. _ Discover birthplaces and resting-places of authors and the stories behind their books. Go long-haul to a palace in 11th century Japan, and staycation in a converted garage in 20th century Wales. Peep into writers’ bedrooms and studies to imagine them at work. Explore the extraordinary places that have inspired...
Building Stories
Science, Maths & Technology

Building Stories

...University's Design and Innovation qualification. In the interactive you will meet Sir Roger Foster and get to know his building for the Wills, Faber and Dumas Headquarters in Ipswich. The secrets of Sir Terry Farrell's MI6 Building in London will be revealed, and Sir Richard Rogers will show you around his Senedd, the Welsh Assembly building in Cardiff. Each story...
All my own work
Education & Development

All my own work

...university student to learn the challenges and temptations facing her during her assignment, and help make it all her own work...In this interactive film, you'll watch a fellow student grapple with a tough deadline in the midst of her busy life. Can you help her make the right decisions? [All my own work launch image] Find out more resources to help you prepare for your...
Do you have a photographic memory?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Do you have a photographic memory?

...University's Forensic Psychology qualifications. Being able to vividly retain an image in your mind after only brief exposure to it is incredibly rare. It's known as eidetic memory. Some initial tests have suggested that a small percent of children and a smaller amount of adults have this special ability. This allows them to continue to see an image, in detail, for a...
Management and the unconscious mind
Money & Business

Management and the unconscious mind

...University of Bristol argues that the parts of the psyche that operate independent of conscious reasoning can in fact be used to solve problems in everyday life, but this would require a shift in culture away from traditional management styles... Why are managers in the East happier to work with a greater level of ambiguity? Western culture has a history of emphasising...
The Romantics
History & The Arts

The Romantics

...University course A230 Reading and studying literature... Romantic authorship Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. The self How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? Wordsworth and De Quincy Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. Romantic timelines What is the impact of writing...
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