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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Profile, which is available before completion of the course and earning of the Statement of Participation....Session 2: Budgeting and taxation: Introduction - MARTIN LEWIS Budgeting and taxation, both sound simple. Both are easy to get wrong. Let’s start with budgeting. Obviously, as a working person, you shouldn’t spend more than you, yeah, earn. But when it comes to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...profile, in person and online. Maintaining an online presence is an essential aspect of career-building for a contemporary academic and digital skills have become additionally important during the pandemic. 2. How could you evidence these skills in your application? Discussion Although, again, there will be opportunities to gain or develop these skills, you will need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...styles, including ‘Be My Baby’, ‘Midnight Special’, ‘Suspicious Minds’, ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon’ and ‘The Teetotaller’. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course A234 Understanding music...Listening for form in popular music: Glossary - * Bridge A contrasting passage connecting other important components of a song. *...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...style. These show just how varied and readily adaptable the human diet can be. The likely ability of our ancestors to vary and improve the quality of their diet and increase the efficiency with which they obtained food and extracted nutrients was probably a major 'driver' for the evolution and success of our own species. With only a small risk of exaggeration, we could...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...style is dramatic and involving - look at the opening sentence: 'It's deathly dark, wet and you're chilled right through'. It makes you want to read on. Publications such as New Scientist or BBC Wildlife provide an excellent means of developing your interest in topics that have caught your attention in this course. But relying solely on articles written by science...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...style help the reader understand the genre and register of a text and grasp its overall meaning without needing to engage fully with grammar and syntax. This technique is also known as 'skimming' or 'reading for meaning'. 'Scan-reading' or 'scanning' is speed-reading a text to look for specific clues, such as numbers, names or other details that provide specific...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Particle physics
Science, Maths & Technology

Particle physics

...style television monitor of the particle tracks resulting from a collision in the Large Electron–Positron (LEP) collider at CERN. A clue concerning the nature of this ‘quark glue’ can be seen in high-energy experiments such as those conducted at CERN. When high-energy beams of electrons are collided with equally high-energy beams of positrons travelling in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...et al.,2000.) Most people tolerate the minor discomfort of an injection and the possibility of local swelling, slight fever or other minor symptoms in the short term following a vaccination, but more extreme or long-lasting side-effects are unacceptable. No medical procedure carries a zero risk and vaccinations are no exception, but in particular groups, such as people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs