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The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...technological innovations that shaped the design and production of Yankee clocks led, eventually, to the millions of watches annually produced by the great firms of Waltham, Elgin, Hamilton and Waterbury. The latter’s price prompted the immortal advertising slogan “The watch that made the dollar famous”. The Industrial Revolution had not only changed our attitude...
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Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon
Nature & Environment

Cyfrifo eich ôl troed carbon

...technologies (eg, electric cars), or by changing their current consumption patterns (eg, by eating less meat). 2021 Progress Report to Parliament, Pwyllgor y DU ar Newid Hinsawdd, t.97 Ond dim ond pe bai'r rhan fwyaf o bobl yn lleihau eu holion troed yn sylweddol, yn hytrach na lleiafrif o ‘bobl wyrdd’, y byddai lleihad o'r fath yn digwydd. Ond nid yw diffyg...
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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...technology affect learners in schools’ is not well defined or clear enough. These decisions may change once you are engaged in your research, but at the proposal stage you will need to outline a plan of research that is new, coherent and manageable. The Introduction: The first part of your proposal might start by introducing the broad context to the discipline and...
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Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry
Money & Business

Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

...technology has long held a fuel economy advantage over gasoline engines, yet older ones were much dirtier, emitting 500 parts per million of sulfur, a key source of particulate emissions. “Clean diesel” engines of the last decade are designed to emit 97% less sulfur emissions, and yet still get as much as 30% better fuel economy than comparable gasoline-powered...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...technology our modern society relies on is full of metals such as gold, platinum, nickel and tantalum that occur in trace amounts in rocks In language, if we put letters together, we form words. In geology, if we put elements together, we form minerals. A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic substance having an orderly internal structure and characteristic chemical...
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Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...education, and there is lousy online distance education. What should our goal be as we all consider opening ourselves up in digital spaces? Quite simply, as it always should have been. It has to be about great teaching. But if those students have never known a world without digital being part of their life, then shame on us if we think we can sit still, put our head in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...education, health services – everything, in fact, from neighbour disputes to war. The law in the United Kingdom has evolved over a long period. It has, over the centuries, successfully adapted itself through a great variety of social settings and disputes of government. Today it contains elements that are ancient, such as the coroners’ courts, which have an 800-year...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...Education...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: describe and discuss the principles of partnership working review the context and policy background that informs partnership working, particularly as it relates to practice with young people identify some of the benefits that can arise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs