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Getting started with Chinese 1
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 1

...changes - There are two common tone changes you need to be aware of, but please do not worry if at this stage you find them difficult to detect: 1. When two 3rd-tone syllables are together, the first syllable is usually changed to a 2nd tone. For example, the greeting nǐ hăo, although transcribed with two 3rd tones, is pronounced with a 2nd tone followed by a 3rd tone:...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...changes in income levels or other financial variables over time, it’s important to know whether figures are in ‘real terms’. Figures that are expressed in ‘real terms’ have been adjusted to take inflation into account, so that we can compare like with like. Let’s look at inflation in a bit more detail. Inflation refers to a sustained increase over time in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...climate of the time in which the historian was writing rather than that of the time being studied. In most cases this involves a relationship between the way in which research interests and questions are formulated and the kinds of issues active in the surrounding environment. Crafts and Harley formulated their revision of rapid, large-scale industrial growth in the late...
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Article 10 mins
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...changes in the person you care for; feeling anxious about what will happen if there is a change in your own circumstances (e.g. if you become ill or when you die); being worried about starting discussions about future care with the person you care for because it might be too difficult to understand and/or might upset them; or struggling with planning for a move to living...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...change in occupational and social practices requires continual relearning and new learning for most adults, including those with higher education. Detailed knowledge in many disciplines has a very limited 'shelf life' and thus it is much more important to leave initial and higher education equipped with the ability to learn new knowledge and skills when required. A recent...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...changed his life and he told me the story of that. He said when he was in prison he began to get very depressed and in Bristol Prison at that time you were allowed to keep a budgerigar, that was the only pet that’s ever been allowed in prisons and I don’t think you can anymore, but at that time you could have a budgerigar. And he went, he chose the egg and he went up...
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Video 20 mins
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...climate. The final theme is globalisation and power relationships in football and in business. You will examine the commercial and global expansion of the game and how different dimensions of power are used in football and other businesses. If you have enjoyed this course and are interested in studying further with us find out more about this and other programmes within...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs