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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...geography. One way of thinking about purchasing power parity is to consider the local prices paid for a globalised product, and then relate the local prices to a “standardised” price, such as the price in dollars. A lighthearted and informal way of understanding this is to consider the “Big Mac Index”, introduced by The Economist magazine in 1986, which is...
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Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...geography of the earth's surface, we have only to flick open an atlas to know instantly the bounds of the Pacific Basin, but the first islanders did not’ (Nunn, 2003, p. 222). It is now believed that Austronesian peoples were the first in human history to master long-distance ocean sailing, and that they began to colonise the islands of the western Pacific some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...geography at the University of Cambridge and was revising hard for his A levels. At his school, Edward was head boy and popular among pupils and teachers. His younger brother and sister idolised him. “We didn’t attach any particular significance to it,” says Mallen of what he saw as merely a musical pause. “I think we just thought, ‘Well, the poor lad’s been...
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Child mental health: is it in crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Child mental health: is it in crisis?

...geography last term. She has had problems attending school for many weeks now. Lily gets very angry with her parents and has a ‘meltdown’ when they try to force her to go to school and she has been in effect home-schooled for almost a whole term. Lily’s school is insisting on a return-to-school plan and her parents are finding it hard to agree about this. Activity 2...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...geographies of stateness’, Political Geography, vol. 25, pp. 752–74. Proudhon, J.-P. (1923 [1851]) General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century (trans. J.B. Robinson), London, Freedom Press. Sartori, G. (1987) The Theory of Democracy Revisited (2 vols), Chatham, NJ, Chatham House. Sen, A. (1999) ‘Democracy as a universal value’, Journal of Democracy,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...geography with great earnestness when the other man came round the corner. He greeted him in answer to his salutation, but the incident disturbed his train of thought, and for the rest of the walk he became very difficult to understand, and talked in a nervous and preoccupied manner. One strange way in which his nervousness affected him was peculiarly characteristic....
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The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...Geography in the news: polder salvation’. National Geographic, 5 May. Available at: https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/ 2014/ 05/ 05/ geography-in-the-news-polder-salvation/ (Accessed: 26 September 2019). Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) (2018) Land use change statistics: 2016 to 2017. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Writing what you know
History & The Arts

Writing what you know

...geography teacher, chronicles the birth of his daughter, Maggie, in letters to his globe-trotting brother, Douglas. Painting an intimate picture of his relationship with his partner, Jay, the novel offers a bleak picture of inner city life, and the couple’s growing need for some sort of political involvement. It comes in the form of the road-protest movement: the novel...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs