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How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...type of fungus that expands plant roots’ water and nutrient uptake. “We have already done the reintroduction to see if what we have isolated can reconnect with the beans, and those results are looking pretty good at the moment,” Mweetwa says. An additional benefit is that the fungi, through their root-like filaments, the mycelia, penetrate the earth adding organic...
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Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...types of physical activities you may participate in. It is not limited to what might be perceived as traditional or purely competitive sports. The course primarily targets individuals in the early stages of their careers or those still pursuing their studies before transitioning into their desired professions. By delving into the course, you will gain insightful knowledge...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...types of media stories covered (with many focusing on crime or violent incidents). Mental health and neuroscience research does not generate sufficient media coverage (with coverage of mental health research in areas other than Alzheimer’s disease largely under-reported). Publicising research offers an opportunity to present a better-informed narrative about mental...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...type and thickness of the clouds, their altitude, whether they consist of water droplets or ice crystals, and so on (Figure 10). Averaged over time and around the world, satellite data indicate that the net effect of clouds in our current climate is a slight cooling of the surface. As you will see, predicting how the balance between warming and cooling might shift in a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...type of calculation used to generate the final column in Table 1. Approximate distance to cinema and back = 30 km Estimated fuel efficiency = 17 km l−1 Question 1 Try to estimate how many litres of petrol or diesel the main car user in your household has consumed in the last week. Make a list of the journeys made, estimating the total distance covered in kilometres....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...types of industries and consumers. It must have a potential use in a wide variety of products and processes. This means that the new technology should not result in the creation of only one set of products (such as a computer), but a wide set of products (such as complex new air-traffic control systems or new inventory controls). It must have strong complementarities with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...phrase ‘distributed leadership’, supporting the idea that early years provision is too demanding to be met exclusively by any one person. This suggests again that each member of the whole team, to a greater or lesser extent, has a crucial part to play. In this sense there may be a designated leader, but the culture of the setting is not one of ‘leader and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...type of mathematical model which is very, very simple, to think about how sensitive the earth’s climate is to CO2, and it uses the warming of the past 150 years or so to try to understand how sensitive things are, but it’s quite a difficult problem because lots of things are changing, not just CO2. And there’s also a time lag in the response of the planet and you...
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