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Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age
History & The Arts

Trouble in paradise: The Dutch golden age

...family that had led military efforts towards independence. By the late 1660s, the Dutch Republic had become roiled by costly and disastrous wars with England and a growing public backlash against its liberal, republican rulers and their values. Into the fray came a remarkable book – and a remarkable author – which aimed to defuse the situation and protect the fragile...
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Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment
Nature & Environment

Wangari Maathai: standing up for women and the environment

...family break-up, and even losing her personal freedom by going to jail. Yet she seems to have come out with no bitterness and resumed her peaceful struggle, eventually reaching greater heights, including government minister when democratic reforms came. She made environmental issues not only a concern of Kenya’s but also Africa’s concern, through the Green Belt...
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Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...family member if you can look at their payslip. What personal allowance is indicated? Use the information above to help work out the allowance being given to you. Make a record of the code. Do you think it’s correct? If you think it is not correct, what are you going to do about it? Feedback If the personal allowance is less than the normal personal allowance for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...history, for mythology and for the Christian legends’ (Fromentin, 1948 [1876], p. 91, 95 and 98). According to Fromentin, we need to recognise the close connection between art and society if we are to appreciate the distinctive character of Dutch seventeenth-century painting: The revolution which had just made the Dutch people free, rich and so ready to undertake...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...history of literacy campaigns has also shown that for literacy for all to be sustained, and for it to contribute to empowerment and human development, it must seen to have a social as well as an economic purpose. For example, Elwert (2001), in his analysis of the failure of literacy campaigns in promoting literacy for human development, argues that literacy is only...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Cell signalling
Science, Maths & Technology

Cell signalling

...family of receptors called ion-channel receptors. In response to acetylcholine, these receptors allow the passage of specific ions, thereby effecting changes in the membrane potential of a cell. Acetylcholine receptors are extremely important in the transmission of electrical signals between excitable cells. 7-helix transmembrane receptors 7TM receptors possess seven...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...family. After being educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were that his privileged life would continue without the need for him to do much more than indulge his hobbies of golf, hunting and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...history and read about human impacts on one iconic group....Aquatic mammals: Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 Bottlenose dolphins Mammals come in a bewildering variety of shapes and sizes and yet all of the 4700 or so species have some characteristics in common. Indeed, it’s the existence of these common features that justifies the inclusion of all such diverse...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs