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Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...family than he does? You might also have noticed that the specific allusion to David Copperfield clarifies the child narrator's gender, which is reinforced by the ‘pretend-tough’ tone. In Great Expectations, Philip Pirrip's name signals the gender of its autobiographical narrator, who is not going to tell us much about his parents either, not because they are touchy,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...family of viruses known as Orthomyxoviridae. The virus was originally confined to aquatic birds, but it made the transition to humans 6000–9000 years ago, coinciding with the rise of farming, animal husbandry and urbanisation. These changes in human behavior and population density provided the ecological niche that enabled influenza, as well as a number of other...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...trees nearby, all these sorts of things that could possibly explain it. What the model would do is it would allow me to identify which of those predict skylark numbers and which ones don’t. So if we set it up like this. You see we’ve got this first column here. This is my column of skylark counts. For each field I’ve got a count and then for each field I’ve got a...
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Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...family responsibilities. These skills are: organising yourself, managing time and managing stress. Unfortunately, there is no universal prescription for any of these skills. However, you will consider what events make you stressed, the impact that different demands and pressures have on you, and different ways of dealing with them so that you can maximise your well-being....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction
Education & Development

Conducting qualitative interviews: an introduction

...family members. The course has been developed from the findings of Reproductive Bodylore: The Role of Vernacular Knowledge in Women’s Contraceptive Decision-Making, funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Grant (AH/S011587/1) and led by a research team from The Open University (OU) and undertaken in partnership with Public Health England and The...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...family member or friend, or to a client or customer), or different situations (formal, less formal). For example, amongst friends, a friendly Hallo is certainly appropriate, and in Austria, among family and friends you will often hear Servus or Grüß dich (Grüß euch if you want to say hello to more than one person). Young people also use international greetings, such...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...Families Programme was established by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. These programmes have been venerated as having solved ‘the welfare problem’ (Rogers, 1999; Clark and Hein, 2000; Peck, 2001). And they have epitomised the ways in which welfare policies are developed around particular constructions of personal...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...family and friends. Perhaps, as an alternative, you could rent a room in your home to provide some extra income? Another increasingly popular option is to release some of the equity in your home, which can be made possible by using a lifetime mortgage. There are an increasing number of lifetime mortgages and retirement interest-only mortgages available. These provide a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs