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Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...LA) also gather data about your area; it is worth exploring these either by going directly to your Local Authority’s website or by going to the Business Wales website where you will find links to all of the 22 LAs as well as additional information and support. At the end of this section we suggest some possible sources of information and support. Task 1: Personal...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...class) at the patent office in Bern. He continued to pursue his interest in physics while at the patent office, and worked on a doctoral thesis during his spare time. 1905 was an extraordinary year in Einstein's life and in the progress of science. During that year he produced four of his most important papers. In the first he explained Brownian motion - the apparently...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...feedback before continuing. Answer The person who wins the election is the person who gets the most votes. To find the biggest number we need to compare the value of the first digit in each number. If this is the same for any of the numbers, then we need to go on to compare the value of the second digit in each number and so on. The value of the first digit in 436 is 4...
Free course 48 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...La, a note to follow so. Ti, a drink with jam and bread, that would bring us back to do. NAOMI BARKER A scale may be graphically represented like this, reading up the ladder from the bottom to top. But music is normally read from left to right, like words. So perhaps it would be better to present it like this. The notes of a scale operate in a sort of family relationship...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...de la Cité (Figure 1). Construction began in 1163 and was not finished until 1345, a total of 182 years. It is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in the world. Particularly outstanding are its flying buttresses (the external stone arches supporting the main body of the church), its large and brightly coloured stained-glass rose windows, and its famous...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their trilateral Syrian summit on April 4, the...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...de Barros, C.M., Rebelo-Harris, B., Meads, C. and Saunders, C.L. (2021) ‘Are we asking the right questions? Working with the LGBTQ+ community to prioritise healthcare research themes’, Research Involvement and Engagement, 7(1), p. 64. Available at: https://researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40900-021-00298-7 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Darko, N....
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...class discontents became apparent around a range of political issues: fuel prices, student loans, blood sports and the invasion of Iraq. Yet MMR provided a focus for protest that was both intensely personal and highly political … The controversy over immunisation allowed scope for individual initiative, at least in the form of a gesture of defiance, which was generally...