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Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...Geography, Politics, Psychology, Social Policy and Sociology – have each accumulated a vocabulary of reasonably well-established ideas. Some of these ideas may be considered as sufficiently accepted by academics working in that field not to require referencing, but they won’t necessarily be well established to you as a student. For example, ideas like ‘the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...Geography always matters. And I believe that geographic information can make both you and me very healthy. Thank you. In this video, Bill Davenhall, a health and human services expert, presents his ideas about the way in which our location (where we live and work) affects our health. As you watch this video, make notes about the elements which make it effective. Think...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...geography. INTERVIEWER Yeah. What kind of work would that be? ESME Sometimes doing research. Like if you wanted to do like, say, the Victorians, and there would sometimes be a question sheet and you had to answer it from the internet. LUKE And sometimes when we have like Ms Orba, our teacher, she set us some recent homework which was the Charles Darwin homework, and we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...Geography of the Welsh Language 1969–1991, 1994.) From: Post-War Wales post_war_resource3.pdf439.0 KB PDF document Resource 3: Percentage of the population able to speak Welsh, 1991. (Source: Aitchison and H. Carter, A Geography of the Welsh Language 1969–1991, 1994.) From: Post-War Wales Use the link below to download all the maps from Post-War Wales as a collection....
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...geography, are simply artificial boxes used to understand the growing awareness of our lives and universe. People have always tried to make sense of our world by trying to organise our knowledge into compartments. Over time, these compartments have changed and multiplied, and as a result, we have ended up with distinct subjects such as history, mathematics and business....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...geography or by using sampling. Alternatively, you may need to refine your research question to look at only part of the original proposal...Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work: 4 Carrying out empirical research - Your project may require you to carry out empirical research in order to obtain data and information. [Described image] Figure 8 Much information...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...geography and this is an area that interests researchers as well as policy makers. Milligan and Conradson (2006, p. 3) raise various questions about this: how and why does voluntary activity develop in different ways in different places? To what extent do the different social, historical and political contexts within which voluntarism is located shape its development? The...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...geography of France is so varied – from the coast of Brittany in the West to the mountains of the Vosges, the Jura and the Alps in the East – most regions boast an impressively diverse menu. From bouillabaisse (a fish soup from Provence) to choucroute (a dish of sauerkraut, sausages and pork, popular in Alsace), there are dozens of dishes and drinks to try when...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs