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Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author
History & The Arts

Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author

...Writings of Gustavus Vassa (Olaudah Equiano, the African) Documenting Abolition of the Slave Trade. United States: Markus Wiener Publishers. Equiano, O. (2004) The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. United Kingdom: Random House Publishing Group. Edwards, P. (1989) ‘A Descriptive List of Manuscripts in the Cambridgeshire...
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Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...write about that day it fills me with pride. During this time, I was politically active as a student. I helped to lead the longest student occupation of any Scottish University, student sit-in set to continue I was an elected representative to the National Union of Students and represented my fellow students at conferences and demonstrations. Coming out Personally, I...
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Budget 2016: The Experts Respond
Society, Politics & Law

Budget 2016: The Experts Respond

...creative accounting. This does little to help grow the economy, and the prospect of job creation resulting from this measure is very much open to question. Meanwhile, lower capital gains rates will benefit those top earners who derive their income principally from “rentier” sources, such as financial trading and property. Measures such as the sugar tax, although...
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Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit: © Birmingham Post and Mail Saward, M., ‘Is This Democracy?’ 2003, Polity Press, http://www.polity.co.uk. Used with permission; Saward, M. ‘Reinventing Democracy’, 2003, Polity Press,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What do we mean by digital health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What do we mean by digital health and social care?

...write down your own definition of this from your own perspective. Discussion Different people will have different definitions that reflect the wider context of digital health and social care. Your definition might have come from your own experience as an individual consumer of health care or from your work. Definitions will probably have included the internet, mobile or...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...writing out the Latin words and/or saying them aloud; thinking of English words which are derived from, and therefore similar to, the Latin words you have learnt; using flash cards; getting a friend to test you; recording vocabulary items and listening back to them; or a combination of these strategies. If you can set up the habit of learning just a few words each day,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © Likoper / Shutterstock.com Figure 6: with kind...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...write an email to my local council representative and correspond with the tax office. But the state is always more than each of these things – perhaps it is not so much a thing as a rather abstract idea which, in a sense, ‘sits behind’ all of these organisations. The state as such does not appear – it seems to be everywhere and nowhere at the same time. This is...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs