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A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime
History & The Arts

A Victorian Christmas: Thackeray goes to the pantomime

...thinking of the pantomime-fairies whom they have seen; whose gaudy gossamer wings are battered by this time; and whose pink cotton (or silk is it?) lower extremities are all dingy and dusty. Yet but a few days, Bob, and flakes of paint will have cracked off the fairy flower-bowers, and the revolving temples of adamantine lustre will be as shabby as the city of Pekin. When...
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Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...think about taking other courses, for example enrolling at a college for a formal qualification. (You will be given details on this at the end of the course.)...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is straightforward! Here’s what you have to do: read all of the pages of the course score 70% or more in the end-of-course quiz. For all the...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...think about what this means for you? In this first week, you'll be looking at the difference between a group and a team, and why employers want their employees to be able to work well in the team. You'll consider your own reactions to this requirement, and start to evaluate what you perceive to be the advantages and disadvantages of this way of working. And you'll start...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...system has evolved so as to avoid a serious potential problem. Unlike our eyes, our ears cannot be directed so as to avoid registering material that we wish to ignore; whatever sounds are present in the environment, we must inevitably be exposed to them. In a busy setting such as a party we are swamped by simultaneous sounds – people in different parts of the room all...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Communicating a challenge to liberal democracy

...system. The mass occupation of public squares across Spain attested to the revitalisation of the public sphere as a space where citizens come together to formulate and articulate ideas. Email communications sent to me by participants, newspaper accounts and online blogs described how, during the occupation of the main Sol square in Madrid, different committees first met...
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What would the proposed deal mean for EU citizens?
Society, Politics & Law

What would the proposed deal mean for EU citizens?

...system. But this argument has always overlooked the fact that the CJEU can only pass judgement when it’s asked to, and where it has competence. It cannot just jump in and “tell” the UK Supreme Court what to do. The court’s case law is also highly interwoven with the principles and rights also applying to EU citizens. In a way, even if the UK succeeds in passing...
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Clavius - a lunar mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Clavius - a lunar mystery

...system, Riccioli reserved the largest craters for those who supported the idea of the Earth as the centre of the Solar System – these included Ptolemy and Tycho (who espoused a hybrid model). Riccioli named the most spectacular crater of all after his predecessor, the German astronomer and mathematician Christoph Klau Clavius (1538 - 1612). At over 230 km in diameter...
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Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Seven projects that show we are in a golden age of engineering

...system, now overstretched and ineffective in the face of a growing population. The £4.7 billion “super sewer”, currently under construction, will run from Acton to Tower Hamlets – capturing, storing and removing the capital’s raw sewage and preventing the millions of tonnes of overflow that currently contaminate the River Thames each year. The 16-mile long,...
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