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International relations: exploring territorial divisions
Society, Politics & Law

International relations: exploring territorial divisions

...de facto British and French rule, as ‘mandated territories’ under the auspices of the League of Nations (the forerunner to the United Nations (UN)). Following on from the stipulations of the Sykes–Picot agreement, the territories of modern-day Syria and Lebanon fell under French control, while present-day Palestine/Israel, Jordan and Iraq were administered by the...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...educated high-school dropout, he favours a uniform of black T-shirts, jeans and a black cap, and a wiry black beard juts from the bottom of his chin. Cannon is a celebrity in the world of cyborgism and speaks about it at conferences, including more corporate events like the World Business Dialogue in Germany. He is a co-founder and the Chief Technical Officer of...
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Article 10 mins
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...education would be fantastic for kids to muck around and tell the story differently and what a great way to learn about behaviour. There are lots of obstacles to doing this. I mean just practically our archives are in a state of pretty bad disrepair, they’ve not been logged, they’re not kept up to date, they’re very difficult to search, we’ve got multiple formats...
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Video 30 mins
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...educational treatise, Émile (1762) as the one book that was to be compulsory reading for the young Émile. This seems to have encouraged the notion that Robinson Crusoe was, above all, a book for children. By 1868 we find Sir Leslie Stephen, in a essay on Defoe published in the Cornhill Magazine, remarking rather condescendingly that ‘Robinson Crusoe is a book for boys...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and socialising. He continued...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...education in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. In England and Wales in 2011, the Tamil speaking-population was said to be 100 689 (Gopal and Matras, 2013) while Dissanayake some years earlier (2008) quoted a community estimate of 150 000. The majority of Tamils are Hindus, with a smaller proportion being Christians and Muslims. Tamils tend to live in extended families,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...education, in your leisure-time activities, or in your own home. Are all of these changes things that you have welcomed? Or are there areas where you would have preferred things to stay the same? AnswerMy responses I'm aware of how different things are for my children. For example, when they are doing homework they will regularly search for information on the internet,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...education, Locke and colleagues consider important aspects of diagnosis and management of GAD and PD in adults using the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria (discussed in Section 3.3) which are of wider, global relevance. The link to the article is provided in the References section should you wish to read further on this topic, beyond this course. The DSM-5 criteria for GAD and PD...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs