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The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...simple-seeming expression of an extraordinarily complex combination of thought and emotion. The ‘dogs and wolves’ are the speaker's ‘unwritten poems’. Why ‘unwritten’? One infers that other matters take priority over love poems. But – ‘unwritten’ – their latent presence assumes nightmarish form, as if the frustration of being unwritten makes them...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...simple as a brick wall. It might be something that’s more sympathetic to maybe a historic environment. So concrete, but faced with local stone, sandstone or something like that. It might be a natural flood measure. So you might go kind of further up the river and speak to farmers and landowners, and see what they can do about their land management to make sure that you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...simple. We are poor because of misrule, because we are badly governed. What happened over the last 50 or 60 years, actually, is that we missed a lot of opportunities. And it is sad to go back and see that at the moment of independence of most African countries – and actually, the African Union celebrated, this year, 50 years of its inception – that countries like...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...simple problems wrong if numbers are involved. We were mixed-ability taught in all subjects in the first year, but after that we were rigidly grouped according to ability and, as expected, I ended up in one of the lower maths groups, where I remained for the rest of my time at secondary school. Any chance of improving my mathematical skills were also limited by the school...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...simple jacket is an amalgam of different parts manufactured all over the world. It has a lining made from polyester and viscose - two different synthetic materials which are likely to have been manufactured at different sites. It has plastic buttons and is held together by cotton threads. The cloth has been dyed an attractive olive colour - the dye will have been...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...simple event. The commitment to working together in a multi-agency context stems from the belief that children’s needs cannot be boxed into health, social or educational compartments and should be viewed holistically. However, this presents a major challenge to traditional ways of working not only between those agencies but for individual practitioners in settings that,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...simple (e.g. made up of one pronoun) and there are two clauses linked by and. In the second, there is only one clause and one verb group was followed, which conveys information about the sequencing of events but not about what actually happened. Most information is instead conveyed through the noun groups A rapid rise in humidity and heavy precipitation. This can be shown...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...simple spray diagram, or mind map. These concepts do not represent alternative – let alone conflicting – views of ‘institutions’ and ‘institutional development’. Rather, all identify dimensions that you need to keep in mind as you develop your understanding of each of these two terms. I do, though, want to emphasise that it is essential not only to recognise...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs