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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...health and wellbeing; cognitive capacity; social mobility; and equality of opportunity. (The British Academy, 2020) Employers say that they value competence in specific languages, but also the analytical, linguistic, literacy and communication skills acquired through language learning, and the intercultural agility that enables people to work across different cultures and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...health, and it had such incidents as many pauses for staring up at the many restorations going on. From point to point the incomparable Perpendicular Gothic carried the eye to the old gargoyles of the caves and towers waiting to be replaced by the new gargoyles, which lay in open-mouthed grimacing in the grass at the bases of the church. While I stood noting both, and...
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Article 10 mins
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...health and fitness, and celebrity and entertainment news, closely followed by science and technology (Hargittai, Füchslin & Schäfer, 2018). In the reference list, you would see: Hargittai, E., Füchslin, T. and Schäfer, M. (2018) ‘How do young adults engage with science and research on social media?’, Social Media + Society, July-September 2018, 1-10, DOI:...
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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...health or sex life Relatively innocuous data: for example, consumption habits or household management...Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?: 3.1 Being a networked practitioner: sharing vs privacy - As we saw in Section 2, computer system designers and policy makers have a complicated job trying to weigh up the importance of open access to information while...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...health precarity. The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first century has demonstrated the way in which a distinctive brand of Irish Gothic writing has continued into the twenty-first century, transformed to reflect not just the legacy of Ireland’s past but also the anxieties and promise of the current moment. . In this sense the Irish ghost story tradition may...
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Article 45 mins
Company law in context
Society, Politics & Law

Company law in context

...health and safety, and fire safety. You would need to choose a name for your business, which may become a trademark; potentially a valuable one, in which case you might later register it. You may advertise your business. You would probably need employees to help you in the business. They would have contracts of employment. On top of your obligations set out in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...health, where the law has actually changed to allow people to be really honest about what's going on. Video 2 Chief Constable Giles York Activity 3 What type of follower are you? Timing: Allow about 60 minutes Having listened to the perspective of leader/follower relationships from Chief Constable York, now read In Praise of Followers by Lawrence Suda. Spend about 10...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...health ache cap paste check care Discussion There is no definitive answer here, unless we decide on a particular dictionary as the judge, because words are being used in new and unusual combinations every day. It’s the ability of nouns to be combined like this that makes it possible for us to talk about new situations and say new things. However, here are some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs