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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...world in that it presents me with a problem that I then try and solve. It might pose a question that the novel tries to solve. The Mistress class was inspired by, I can’t remember what now, it’s so long ago, it’s vanished into the unconscious. I think it was inspired by a real situation in my life in that I have sisters, I’m very interested in the relationships...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...world, and distance is one of the biggest challenges to delivering any service there, including healthcare. It is just under an hour-and-a-half’s drive from the hospital to Tumurbat’s home, which is in a semi-rural hillside area – though it is still part of the Ulaanbaatar capital city region. (The Ulaanbaatar region – treated as a province in Mongolia – has a...
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Article 15 mins
Psychological research, obedience and ethics
Society, Politics & Law

Psychological research, obedience and ethics

...World War (1939–45), under the Nazi regime, research was carried out on human beings that led to many deaths, deformities and long-term injuries. Revelations about this research were as great a shock for the post-war world as the death camps, because these acts of brutality and murder were conducted by doctors and scientists. After the war the victors held a series of...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...world in a particular way, because how you 'see' things affects the way you approach situations or undertake specific tasks. This free course will help you to learn about the problems of defining a system and meet some of the key concepts used in systems theory: boundary, environment, positive and negative feedback, etc...What is systems thinking and practice? The essence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...world. The family unit now takes many different forms to the 20th century Western society construct of two parents and two children living in the family home. Celia Brackenridge (2006) acknowledges these changes in her definition of the term ‘parent’: Conventionally, the term ‘parent’ has been applied to the birth mother or father but it has become socially and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can you train for penalty shoot-outs?

...World Cup quarter-final against Spain. Hiddink wanted his players to practise penalties in the stadium, so it would be familiar for them. Instead of walking from the centre-circle to the spot, he made the players walk from the penalty spot at one end of the pitch to the penalty spot at the other end, before taking their kicks. That way, when the real thing came around,...
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Article 10 mins
What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...world then international comparisons of tests are becoming more important to parents and young people – as well as governments. One of the ideas put forward in the series is that school students in Britain are ‘3 years behind’ China, particularly in maths. What does this mean? What is it based on? How helpful is it? International comparisons based on tests have to...
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Article 10 mins
Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
History & The Arts

Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?

...world. But for the vast magnitude of those changes which have occurred in the immediate vicinity of this country, our most serious consideration would have been attracted by what has occurred on the other side of the Atlantic. Under other circumstances, we should have seen with uneasiness and sorrow (alarm is out of the question), the unfriendly, or rather the decidedly...
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Article 10 mins