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How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...communications: stretching 3500 miles (5630 km) from its source on the Tibetan plateau to its estuary at the sea. Hence its modern Chinese name: Changjiang, meaning ‘long river’. The Yangzi was joined to China’s other great east–west flowing rivers by the Grand Canal, which intersected them roughly at right angles. This latter provided a major north–south...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...communication systems. For instance, during the fifteenth century, African people such as the Wolof, Mende, Mandingo and Yoruba ethnic groups used hairstyles as means to carry messages or as status symbols, such as denoting age, religion, social rank and marital status. One of the unique features of African textured hair is its ability to be sculpted and moulded into...
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Article 5 mins
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...community and formal places of paid employment (though of course with the COVID-19 Pandemic, home has become a formal workplace for millions of women workers in different and multiple ways from how this was imagined in the past). The distinction between those workplaces which are characterised as locales of paid employment and places and locations of unpaid work –...
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Article 10 mins
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...communication or interpersonal skills. Did you include extending or developing thinking skills in any of your responses? If you did, how important was this in relation to other reasons you listed for study and higher education? The ability to think, particularly the ability to think critically, is often cited as one of the main purposes of education by those involved in...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...community. Activity 1 Dimensions of workplace learning Make notes on each of the four dimensions listed above and how you think they are relevant to you and to your work role. Use the following questions to aid your thinking: What prior skills, knowledge and understanding do you bring to your current role? How does your work context influence the ways you create or access...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...communicate best with each of these different audiences, you needed to select the appropriate ‘voice’. I hope you found that this depended on a careful choice of words. In a personal communication to a friend, particularly if you are a regular letter-writer, you may have found you could just ‘write as you speak’, so you did not need to make conscious choices when...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...community estimate of 150 000. The majority of Tamils are Hindus, with a smaller proportion being Christians and Muslims. Tamils tend to live in extended families, with the elderly often living with their adult children. [A tamil family] Figure 3 Three generations of a Tamil family – the women are wearing saris (saylay, in Tamil), while the patriarch is wearing a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs