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Energy in buildings
Nature & Environment

Energy in buildings

...technology is described later in section 3.4. [Described image] Figure 26 (a) The Brunck Estate in Ludwigshafen, Germany (b) Laying blocks of foam insulation on a roof Monitoring showed that the net space heating energy use fell by a factor of seven from 210 kWh per square metre of floor area per year to only 30 kWh m2 yr–1. This is equivalent to 3 litres of heating oil...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...education and for social welfare. (Gilliat-Ray, 2010, p. 182f) The East London Mosque has sought to expand its ability to serve a variety of functions for its community. It added a building to host more community services, the London Muslim Centre, in 2004. It completed building the Maryam Centre, making specific provision for women, in 2013. The London Muslim Centre and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...Technology – Code of Practice for Information Security Management sets out the management responsibility for developing an appropriate security policy and the regular auditing of systems. BS 7799–2 (2002) Information Security Management Systems – Specification with Guidance for Use gives a standard specification for building, operating, maintaining and improving an...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...technology. Now that seems to be perfectly acceptable – that he could have worn glasses and achieved a similar sort of effect. Why is that alright but an enhancement beyond that is not okay? MICHAEL SANDEL Right beyond safety and fairness my main objection to the use of performance enhancing genetic therapies, for example, has to do with the worry that it will corrupt...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...educational/moral content. Might this have something to do with the status of these cloths? Then reflect on the nature of proverbs and what these might suggest to western writers about the tradition of cloth-making in Ghana.)...Textiles in Ghana: 5.1 History of kente - Activity 17 Once you’ve watched the video, make a few notes on what you learnt about the history of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...Education.” “Every patriot is severe with strangers,” Rousseau wrote. “They are nothing in his eyes.” Trump, in his tussle with Megyn Kelly of Fox News, and with womankind in general, might also draw comfort from Rousseau’s view of “woman” as “specially made to please man,” who “must make herself agreeable to man rather than provoke him.” Many such...
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Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit
Science, Maths & Technology

Fermanagh: The backdrop to the G8 summit

...education centres. The folk tales and music of the west of Ireland attract festivals and many pubs have live music nights. Enniskillen’s Ardhowen Theatre complex provides a cultural and meeting centre, which is well used. The range of large country houses and traditional cottages make the settled landscape widely variable. Like much of the rest of Ireland, the...
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Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe
History & The Arts

Five Inspiring Black Trailblazers from across Europe

...education and cultural participation.” 3: Igiaba Scego [Igiaba Scego] Meet Igiana Scego, an Italian writer who takes the theme of identity at the heart of her work. Born in Rome to parents who had fled the Somalian coup of 1969, Igiaba grew up experiencing two cultures. One side brought her parents tales of a charmed life of status in Somalia; the other, the sometimes...
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