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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...communication, manual dexterity, attention to detail or creativity. Broader talents could include singing, painting or writing. If you would find it useful to have a list of skills to prompt you, Clear Mind has a table of transferable skills (open in a new tab or window by holding down Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) when you click on the link). Table 1 Skills/talents that I enjoy...
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...communally in a public bath. Even the fact that I have a bathroom in my flat is something that has a specific history in modern western culture relating to how we expect to live our lives. Referring to the post-war fashions for alfresco dining and indoor bathrooms, my grandfather once declared that the world had gone mad because people were going outside to eat, but...
Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...communicative power. For example, the wealthy lavished money on rich artefacts or dynastic portraits in part because they were an aspect of the social exclusiveness that a representative number of their entourage could notice and grasp. In reiterating the convention that religious art was particularly useful for those unable to read, medieval thinkers seem to have assumed...
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...communication skills – in other words, how well people manage their lives...Session 1: What is a learning disability?: 2.1 Learning disability categories - The population of people with learning disabilities is sub-divided according to how severe their learning disability is. There are four categories: Profound – people whose IQ is estimated to be below 20, who often...
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...Communication and literacy: producing clear, structured written work oral literacy listening and questioning. Numeracy: manipulating numbers general mathematical awareness and its application in practical contexts. Application of information technology: basic IT skills familiarity with commonly used IT programmes. Business and customer awareness: understanding the key...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...communicating all available knowledge in the interests of progress. The following statement from one of Diderot's many articles in the Encyclopédie, the one entitled ‘Encyclopaedia’, sets out the basic manifesto of the Enlightenment: The aim of an Encyclopédia is to bring together the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth, to present its overall...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Do sperm whales speak with local accents?
Science, Maths & Technology

Do sperm whales speak with local accents?

...Communications, the whales aren’t born with different vocal chords or a bit of the sea particularly suited to a certain kind of click. They simply acquire their dialects from one another in the same way you or I might have taken on our parents' accent – by copying what they hear. Sperm whales aren’t the only animals who learn like this. I have spent time with...
A future for languages in schools?
Languages

A future for languages in schools?

...communicate with each other, across different schools, using a dedicated forum to discuss and exchange their ideas around a series of online activities. ‘A future for languages in schools?’ The Colloquium in July 2015, entitled “A Future for Languages in Schools?” was hosted by LCLC to address the future of modern foreign language learning and teaching. Various...