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What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...adult was at least seventy by the end of the century and war, if not organised violence more generally, was a personal experience only for a very small minority of contemporary Europeans. There were clearly different conceptions of Europe and the association it now formed among the different countries of Europe, and differing levels of commitment to the European idea...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...adult, there are more organisms to produce young in the next generation, who produce more young in the next, and so on. This leads to a population explosion. Economic growth is supposed to work the same way – increased wealth this year allows us to spend and invest to produce more wealth next year, with this continuing year after year. Of course, the sound from the...
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...Careful investigation of the size, rounding and distribution of the pebbles led the mission team to conclude that they were deposited by a stream that was knee to hip deep and probably flowed at an average velocity of 0.20 to 0.75 m s−1. In addition to these conglomerates, sandstones and mudstones were found. The fine-grained nature of the mudstones showed that they...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...careful definitions, which can always be challenged. Without access to that background information the safest approach is to accept the figures as a reliable guide, but not necessarily to the accuracy given. Since human settlement approximately 700–800 years ago, the indigenous forests, which once covered about 85 percent of the land area, have been reduced from some 23...
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...careful listening. (You may like to make notes in the box below.) Questions to bear in mind while considering the points she makes include: What is the ‘regional’ problem and how should it be understood? Why is it not enough simply to map the economic and social differences between areas of the UK? Can prosperity in one place be understood without recognising its...
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...care must be taken to ensure that the answer given by a calculator is correct. Activity 11 Find the magnitude to two decimal places and direction to one decimal place of the following vectors. a. negative three times i plus j b. vector element 1 negative two element 2 zero c. vector element 1 two element 2 four...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: 2.4...
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...care, and have the potential to influence global policies. Networks: In its simplest form a network is any group of interconnected nodes – actors or groups – that doesn’t have a formal authority structure (like governments or governing bodies) and isn’t primarily commercial or market-based. While many NGOs might be thought of as individual entities, many are...
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...adults who work in their classrooms’, Early Years, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 149–62. Hall, K. and Nuttall, W. (1999) ‘The relative importance of class size to infant teachers in England’, British Educational Research Journal, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 245–58. Hancock, R. (2012) ‘The pastoral pedagogy of teaching assistants’, in Cole, T., Daniels, H. and Visser, J. (eds)...