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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...communication, teams need to be assured of the constructive style in which everyone is expected to interact. Different parts of a meeting agenda may require different styles of engagement (not everything needs a dialogue!). Setting some ground rules can help to set the ‘tone’ of a meeting. Decide (with others where possible) not just what you’re going to discuss,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...community. Most historians suggest that modernisation began in Europe during the eighteenth century (Cocks, 2007, pp. 27–8), continued throughout the nineteenth and reached maturity in the twentieth. Second, ‘modernity’, which is the experience of modernisation, an articulation of feeling modern or a sense that a break with the past has occurred, which is expressed...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...communities, of the BBC Radio Wales Millennium History series, The People of Wales (1999). Audio 2 (duration 0:56)...Welsh history and its sources: 3.3.2 Llywelyn ap Gruffydd - A.D. Carr discusses the career of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, ‘the Last Prince of Wales’, and in particular Llywelyn’s final uprising against Edward I, and the deaths of Llywelyn and his brother...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...communication, but it also provides some insights into French society and culture through authentic printed, audio and video materials. It will be of interest to all those who want to improve their language skills in order to communicate more easily and effectively in French. Intermediate French: 14 July focuses on the French national holiday which commemorates the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...communication short courses. You can study a wide range of language and language related subjects with us anywhere in the world, in any time zone, whatever your motivation – leisure, professional development or academic. It’s the one stop shop for engaging with languages, professional communication and intercultural dialogue. Our short courses allow us to be agile and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...community groups interested in classical music. Getting performers on board Sometimes performers can initially be a bit reluctant to programme music by women, if they are unfamiliar with the music. This is often due to the time necessary to learn the new repertoire and the additional rehearsal time. The work can be challenging and take a lot of time to master. You need to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...communities in the world, ‘This is where we’re going.’ Lots of working papers if you look at the acknowledgements in the front of the Stern Review, tremendous interaction with – RH: But no peer review though. NS: Well, you don’t – RH: For something as influential as this maybe it would’ve been backed up if you’d had a peer review. NS: You don’t normally...
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Does counting calories work?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does counting calories work?

...community: if you’re trying to lose weight, perhaps you will curate your gut microbiome so as to extract fewer calories without harming your overall health. Peter Turnbaugh cautions that the science is not yet able to recommend a particular set of microbes, let alone how best to get them inside your gut, but he takes comfort from the fact that our microbial populations...
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Video 5 mins