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Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...education, and generally have been perceived as fundamentally different. Are men and women equally free to create themselves, and to be who they want to be? The existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir addresses these questions in The Second Sex...Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution: 1.1 Who was Simone de Beauvoir? - Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...education and economic life’ (2012, p. 1). In the case of Britain, he argues ‘the period between 1956 and 1973 witnessed unprecedented rapidity in the fall of Christian religiosity amongst the British people’ (2001, p. 188). Critical to this decline was a fall in female piety (which had also undergirded the churchgoing habits of men and children), which came with a...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...education was within the Australian system. She was taught that Australian history started in 1770 when Captain Cook discovered Australia. She learnt about the first convict settlements, the first settlers, the explorers who trekked across the outback, opening up trails and discovering Australia. This was the history that all Australian schoolchildren grew up with and it...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...technology, the machinery, the size of the machinery - everything is geared to bigger production - to compete. BEN TAYLOR: What you’re seeing is a larger-scale mechanisation coming in. You’re seeing larger kit being used and farming done on a more industrial scale. It’s becoming more of a commercial activity, rather than the more pastoral practice that has been...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...technology such as machine translation tools can instil, but why its potential can be of huge benefit, and why it cannot fully replace your human brain. [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: A future with machine translation. It’s easy to worry that machine translation might take away the pleasure and purpose of language learning. But to understand what machine translation means for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...technology. In fact, the perceptions of risk are not based solely on quantitative measures but include subjective value judgements. These may be influenced by the degree to which the risk is imposed upon us rather than accepted voluntarily, our knowledge of the problem, our trust in the ‘management’ of the risk and so on, but more of that later. The net result is that...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...education and training. I recall a story (told by a marketing person) about a group of professionals, each given a barometer and asked to find the height of a church tower. The physicist, who remembered that air pressure changes with height, took the barometer reading at the bottom and at the top of the tower to calculate the height. The engineer dropped the barometer and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...education and health. These services are provided through income from taxation and, in the UK, national insurance. The private sector includes organisations and individuals that provide goods and services and their primary aim is to make a profit; for example, shops, manufacturers, financial services, etc. Profits are distributed to owners and shareholders as well as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs