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The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
History & The Arts

The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds

...system managed by local authorities, often at threat and sold off at times when local authorities are short of money. So I think allotments pose a number of problems in that they allow people to garden. When I had an allotment for a short time, [I] took a class of kind of twenty-odd twelve year-olds down so they could pull out a carrot and see what it was like. Laurie...
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Article 15 mins
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...System of Moral Philosophy (Volume 2), published in 1755, he argued that ‘‘perpetual labour’ may be ‘justly adjudged’ as an appropriate punishment for law breakers. He goes on: … no law could be more effectual to promote a general industry, and restrain sloth and idleness in the lower conditions, than making perpetual slavery of this sort the ordinary...
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Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...system in your school for referring students to the Connexions PA Now, click on the link to go to the Connexions website. To find out more about your local Connexions Partnership, click on ‘Partnerships’, then on your region on the map. Another useful related website is Connexions Direct Job4U. If you work in Scotland you may find the Career Scotland website useful....
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...system for reminding singers of the notes of a melody using the joints of the fingers of one hand and pointing to them with the other. You can see this original system in Figure 9. Figure 9 Guidonian hand Try drawing a line to represent the note you start on and attempt the previous activity again, putting those coins or buttons down in relation to the line. With a point...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...System. To explain this remarkable phenomenon, a remarkable explanation is required. This has proved to be within the imaginative powers of astronomers, who have proposed that the engine consists of an accreting supermassive black hole, around which gravitational energy is converted into electromagnetic radiation. In Section 2 you will learn how spectroscopy can be used...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...systems are managed and used. Why is wellbeing and inclusion so important in a higher-education context? Barbara Bassa, a Programme Director at Advance HE, explains: There is no argument about the fact that the quality of student experience at university starts with the quality of the services provided by the university staff: academics and professional support staff. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...system. Gauguin’s paintings are complex, being on the one hand highly sophisticated and self-conscious examples of an avant-garde rejection of the conventions of bourgeois taste, and on the other seeking out ‘authentic’ effects according to the discourse of ‘primitivism’, which was beginning to be influential among artists tired of the superficial sophistication...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...system. They have a skeleton of calcium carbonate, silica, or, as in some bath sponges, horny organic material. Water passes in through the sponge's many surface pores, often to the central cavity of a sack-like body, and out through a large hole at the top. Some have a stalk (Figure 1a), others are encrusting and irregular in shape. Sponges feed by filtering off minute...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs