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You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...family type. The table shows that family type single, not retired, with children are much more likely to be both in arrears and to have higher heavy burden indicators than all other family types (BIS, 2010). The link between income levels and debt problems was identified again in a study by the Institute for Public Policy Research, which found that ‘not all low-income...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...history of OMT and the benefits and limitations they pose for language learners. You will also find out about the role reflection plays when using OMT. In the second session, you find a variety of examples of how OMT can be used to support the reading, listening and vocabulary learning in a foreign language. Activities in French, German, Spanish and English will help you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch the following video in which Dr Sue Black OBE introduces the course. Transcript There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show you how other people have navigated their own unconventional careers. Importantly, you will hear about how they have got back to STEM employment after a career break. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Studying mammals: Life in the trees
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Life in the trees

...history', much in the style that David Attenborough (DA) adopts in LoM, relating the lifestyles of tree dwellers to the environment in which they live. What we know of these animals reflects what is possible to observe in field studies, rather than from carrying out extensive investigation in the laboratory. Tree dwellers are elusive and cryptic animals, qualities that...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...family to use it had. We can see that little picture of a heart comes up, which is very cute. Just like a sort of heart you use in love, actually. And there you go-- 140 over 84 for blood pressure, pulse of 62. So you know your numbers, and you can adjust your life accordingly. But in the ancient world, numbers really don't play a part. Let's think about lovesickness,...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...history of publishing. As Charles Rzepka puts it, Christie is ‘not only the most prolific and popular author of detective fiction in the twentieth century, but the world’s best-selling writer, ever’ (a record which remains intact at the time of writing). In this free course you’ll examine one of Christie’s most significant works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Crimes of the powerful
Society, Politics & Law

Crimes of the powerful

...family violence’, which may be founded on, for example, patriarchal ideological assumptions, and ‘hate crimes’, which may be founded on, for example, racist or homophobic ideological assumptions. Crimes of the powerful White-collar crime Any criminal offence committed by a person of relatively high status or who holds relatively high levels of trust where the...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...histories. Family members may hate each other and love each other, sometimes both together; they agree and they disagree. They do what it takes to keep going. Even when families fall apart, members create ways of dealing with each other. Living together is an important enterprise, whether that consists in the search for food and shelter or in the quest for a viable...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs