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Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...English is not your first language. It is well known that time constraints are a barrier in distance learning, and you may well have to be satisfied with doing what is good enough, whatever your circumstances. Your aim should not be to submit the ‘perfect’ assignment (even if there were such a thing). Look again at the discussion of the purpose of an essay in Activity...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...English language and, indeed, of many other languages, that we use the same word, ‘depression’, to describe how a kid feels when it rains on his birthday, and to describe how somebody feels the minute before they commit suicide. People say to me 'Well, is it continuous with normal sadness?' And I think, in a way, it's continuous with normal sadness. There is a certain...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...everyday tasks and decisions. These include the act of considering possibilities, exploring options and asking questions such as those Jacob Morgan posed in the video: Why might this happen? What else might happen? What factors may influence it happening/not happening? What is the future of work that YOU want to see happen?...Hybrid working: Planning for the future: 1.1...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The many guises of the emperor Augustus
History & The Arts

The many guises of the emperor Augustus

...everyday basis only by men who were not involved in manual labour: politicians, lawyers, clerks and businessmen, for example. As it required someone to help put it on, people who wore it on a regular basis would also have normally had household slaves to do this – another expense. Because of its formality, however, it was also the required dress for important formal...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...everyday business and, as with all secondary data, it existed prior to and for purposes other than your own project. In contrast, external secondary data refers to information that comes from a wide variety of sources outside an organisation. Internal secondary data Much of the internal secondary data available is generated as part of the normal operation of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...everyday tasks like getting washed and preparing food. Molly, unlike Monty, does not seem to be in the Third Age. In Laslett’s terms she might be described as in the Fourth Age of decline towards death. In some situations, it is useful to have a terminology to distinguish between people like Molly and people like Monty. As Laslett argues, it is important not to...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...English term in our context. The Latin word originally referred to the challenge presented to seafarers by a barrier reef and so implied a possible negative outcome. The Arabic word, on the other hand, implies ‘anything that has been given to you (by God) and from which you draw profit’ and has connotations of a potential beneficial outcome. A twelfth-century Greek...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...English schools, Ofsted (the body responsible for the inspection of schools in England) reports that: in too many instances there was insufficient emphasis on active music-making or on the use of musical sound as the dominant language of learning … Put simply … there was not enough music in music lessons. (Ofsted, 2012, p. 4) In this final section, and drawing on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs