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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...family member and explore the differences. Understanding not just what those differences are but the reasons for them can be quite revealing. Recent research in the field of neuroscience has determined how we are judged not just for who we are but for how we are perceived by others. Lyons and O’Mara explain this process as follows. We make person judgements on the basis...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...family, without interruptions (but this is almost impossible without the support of your partner and children). It is much easier for young people to be selfish and shut themselves off. They don't have as much to worry about as older students. It is even more difficult if you are a single parent who has to go out to work as well as taking care of children, along with...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...families like that, single parent families, they just haven’t got time because they’ve got to go to work or whatever. And I have to say I had a really good time at school: I was head prefect, I was made pupil of the year in my third year when I was about 13. But I left school without any qualifications. At the age of 15 something inside me snapped and I went: ‘I’m...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...family and friends; let them know you’ve decided to start learning French and they can help you when you practise what you’ve been learning, or leave you in peace when you need to study. After completing this course, you will be able to: say hello, goodbye and some of the first phrases you might use when meeting a French speaker give your name and nationality use...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...families of lower socio-economic backgrounds were encouraged to take out increasingly unsustainable loans to get on the ‘housing ladder’ (Dymski, 2012). However, when many of these households were no longer able to repay their mortgage rates, the ‘housing market bubble’ burst and plunged the US economy, and then the world economy, into crisis. Shaken by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...family of four producing 2 sacks a week? What is our basis of comparison? Rubbish per household, per person, per week, per month, per year? In the video, Professor Hans Rosling demonstrates how development in terms of average income and lifespan has changed over the last two hundred years. In Europe, the industrial revolution led to increasing income, followed by...
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Video 45 mins
Discovering music through listening
History & The Arts

Discovering music through listening

...families which reflects the way they produce sound: plucking or bowing (strings), blown (wind or brass) or struck (percussion, keyboards). The way an instrument is played can also impact upon tone colour, for example, the sound might begin and end very suddenly (detached or staccato) or there might be a smooth progression between different pitches (legato). Many...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...family history; the language and customs which govern our social lives rely for their meaning on a continuity between past and present. Yet at times the pace of change, and its consequences, are so radical that not only is change perceived as decline, but there is the threat of rupture with our past lives. (Hewison, 1987, pp. 43–5) The context in which Hewison was...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs