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Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...system, moving onto the Earth’s oceans and seas. Understanding how ocean movements are generated and sustained in the form of waves, tides, flows and currents is important in many fields of engineering. In the construction industry understanding of winds likely to be encountered is vital in the design, construction, and maintenance of high-rise buildings. In the...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...system in place that works for you. You need somewhere to study and somewhere to keep your study materials and related files. You’ll nearly always need access to a computer, but may find you can listen to an audio recording in your car, or study on the train or the bus, for example, if this works for you. An increasing emphasis on independent study at Master’s level...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...system, an area of the brain that sits between the brainstem and the cortex (see Figure 2). Of particular importance are the amygdalae (‘amygdalae’ is the plural; the singular is ‘amygdala’), two small structures − one on each side − within the temporal lobes, which are involved in both emotional processing (especially fear) and emotional memory. [Described...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...systems of England and Wales were completely integrated and elected representatives for both countries sat in the House of Commons at Westminster (Dickinson, 2007). Although Scotland and England shared the same monarch from 1603, the Kingdom of Scotland remained a distinct political entity with its own representative institution, the Parliament of Scotland, until 1707....
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...systems make some kinds of information more easily retrievable than others and hence give more weight to that information in decision making. Question 2 Stomach cancer causes more deaths than motor accidents by a ratio of more than two to one. Yet most people believe motor accidents cause more deaths. The news media are more likely to carry vivid accounts of motor...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...system teach ITCSE English and do some private tutoring as well. And there's talk of my teaching developing and expanding, and I'll be teaching A-level English shortly as well. The particular institution I work for uses a system of synchronous lessons. So the students log in at the same time as I do, and we have a class. We use software, which is called Electa. And within...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...system gets broken. It's maladaptive.' People come to me and say 'I think, though, if I just stick it out for another year, I think I can just get through this'. And I always say to them 'You may get through it, but you'll never be 37 again. Life is short, and that's a whole year you're talking about giving up.' Think it through. It's a strange poverty of the English...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...system, because there's a knock-on effect for investment in skills and other training. All of the studios, and a lot of the visual effects companies who are basically being funded through their work with the studios, pass on quite a lot of those benefits to independent producers and lower budget film-making at a lower cost as well. But what we do have, which is very...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs