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Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...careful of which word you want to choose. Equally, if you want to type the current characters for bĕi jīng, which are two characters, you need to type them together. So the word appears together. If you type bei first, then you will have to look for the right character for bĕi jīng. So bei, and then jing, you will have to look for the right character, which is in...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...care to respect the copyright associated with that file. It’s fine if you are sharing files containing work that you have created yourself. There are rights in place to protect your own work. And those same rights come into force if you share or distribute material that belongs to someone else. Learning the basics of copyright, ownership and licensing will help you to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...adult skill development. Find out more here: cpdstandards.com/research. By participating in this high profile research, you will be contributing to scientific knowledge about adult skill development and how we can develop successful future careers. Participation is confidential, voluntary and we will not pass on your details to others....Week 1: Where are you starting...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...careful what I say so I won’t say it within the room. I’ll wait at the side and explain to them, earlier, you said something, and it didn’t sound too right. And this is my take on it. Or you may not see it like this, but be very mindful because others may take it differently. It’s a bit one sided. It can be manipulative. For example, when we go on strike, if the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...careful when converting between wavelength and frequency spacings or ranges, rather than individual values. For example, let's suppose you know the output from a light-emitting diode (LED) contains wavelengths between 1300 nm and 1320 nm so that the spectral width is 20 nm and you want to know the frequency range in hertz. To get the exact frequency range you need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...care taken in passing sentence. CLD: Exactly! So now it’s over to our listeners to try to make a sentencing decision in the next activity. ...Truth, myth or mixture?: 6.3.1 You be the judge - Now that you have explored how and why people are sentenced, Activity 13 puts your knowledge into practice. Activity 13 You decide the sentence Timing: Allow 30 minutes Mairead is...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...care for the environment. They were planning to launch an English-language version and were looking for new ES>EN translators to help them out. I worked with the magazine’s editor-in-chief and a team of volunteer translators for several months, and I translated a number of articles including one on sustainable architecture and an interview with the linguist and...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...adult fish when levels of calcium, sodium and chloride are low 4.0–4.4 Harmful to adult fish of many types that have not been progressively acclimated to low pH 3.5–3.9 Lethal to salmonids, although acclimated roach can survive for longer 3.0–3.4 Most fish are killed within hours at these levels (EPA, 2000) In addition, highly acidic waters can dissolve heavy...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs