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Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...Business School...Week 2: Looking at moons: Introduction - Like planets, moons can have an internal layered structure: a core, mantle and crust. At Jupiter and beyond, the outer part of each moon is ice that behaves like rock. How do moons get their names? Jess gives you a heads up on what to expect this week. JESSICA BARNES Hi there. Well done for getting to Week 2. Last...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...businesses. It has been made by governments looking for new ways to reshape education, learning and work. So it's very much what we've made it, and it's also responsive to the way in which we, as ordinary people, make use of the internet. Thinking about the ways in which we can design it, we can use it, there are lots of organisations out there now who are working to both...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...money, continues. Female athletes When the term ‘athlete’ is used, this means anyone who is active in a sport or fitness pursuit. This encompasses all levels of activity from the person involved in walking for health reasons, someone attending a gym to improve their fitness, up to an elite athlete challenging for gold medals. Some people may not classify themselves as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...money over time. Currently there is more energy coming in from the Sun than there is going out, so the planet is storing energy. The extra energy has warmed the Earth and led to other changes. The Earth’s energy budget being out of balance is not unusual in itself, only that we are inadvertently helping ‘tip the scales’ with our activities. As this continues, so...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...money will be in partnership with government, some with projects. So it’s looking at reforming the whole of the education system. The Girls’ Education Challenges are what we call a centrally managed programme. So that was across around 30 countries, £355M is the largest ever global fund for girls’ education. And the aim was to work with at least one million girls...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...money ‘for the illumination of our dear church’ (p.173). In a letter to Roger Fry, whose biography Woolf was writing alongside Between the Acts, she wrote ‘Directly I’m told what a thing means it becomes hateful to me’. This is also La Trobe’s response, and takes us back to the opening quotation from Woolf’s letter to Eliot where she praises his verse saying...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...money to support our research and we were able to attract several large grants, one from the energy company BP and one from the US Department of Energy that allowed us to fund several large centres here that work on these topics. And now I lead one of those centres, that's funded by BP with a focus on what we call energy biosciences, that is the application of modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...money. Mandy worked as a waitress for a few months but found it too stressful and tiring, so she went to work in a department store instead. Her boyfriend decided to move to another city in the hope of finding better work there; the distance drove them apart and they eventually split up. Meanwhile Mandy tried to distract herself by using her spare time to create abstract...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs