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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
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
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
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
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...history books by chance. He was working in a New York bank when the communists took power, and he chose to return home to help rebuild his country's economy. Languages were only a hobby, but with few experts in the field, the government insisted he should take charge. ZHOU YOUGUANG: The government thought this is a very important work. At that time more Chinese were...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...family on low earnings or out of work will see the introduction of cuts in tax credits or Universal Credit of £10.45 per week. In larger families with more than two children, there will also be a cut in child tax credit of £53.30 per week for each child after the second one. And for all working-age people getting benefits or credits, Osborne’s freeze in their level of...
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Article 5 mins
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...of the public. With an ethos of inclusivity and respect for diverse realms of economic expertise, the seminar series will bring together those working on current challenges across a broad range of research interests: Social Policy, Personal Finance, Innovation, Macroeconomics, Development Economics, Health, Inequality and Employment, Philosophy and History of Economics....
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Video 5 mins
Languages and the refugee crisis
Languages

Languages and the refugee crisis

...history demonstrates there are different potential outcomes depending on several factors – for instance, certain communities of Sephardi Jews still speak their vernacular language more than 500 years after leaving the Iberian Peninsula – however this is not always the case. Second and subsequent generations can stop using their ancestors’ language for various...
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Article 5 mins