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Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...technology we use to communicate. These days this often means computers and smartphones, but writing itself is a technology. So is paper, ink and all sorts of other things. Every new technology that comes along alters the way we communicate. Some people take a very prescriptive view of how language should be used, but in reality it’s changing all the time. It doesn’t...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...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 socialising. He continued...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Tamil: a taster course

...education in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. In England and Wales in 2011, the Tamil speaking-population was said to be 100 689 (Gopal and Matras, 2013) while Dissanayake some years earlier (2008) quoted a community estimate of 150 000. The majority of Tamils are Hindus, with a smaller proportion being Christians and Muslims. Tamils tend to live in extended families,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...educational treatise, Émile (1762) as the one book that was to be compulsory reading for the young Émile. This seems to have encouraged the notion that Robinson Crusoe was, above all, a book for children. By 1868 we find Sir Leslie Stephen, in a essay on Defoe published in the Cornhill Magazine, remarking rather condescendingly that ‘Robinson Crusoe is a book for boys...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...education programs’, Journal of Physical Therapy Education, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 48–56. Heaney, C. A., Walker, N. C., Green, A. and Rostron, C. L. (2015) ‘Sport psychology education for sport injury rehabilitation professionals: A systematic review.’, Physical Therapy in Sport, vol. 16, pp. 72–9. Walker, N. and Heaney, C. (2013) ‘Psychological responses to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...educated guess, and whether right or wrong you’ll get some feedback that we hope will help you to understand things a little better. Activity 1 What do you already know about moons? Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes. Select the answer for Question 1a here The scale of the Solar System. How far is the Moon from the Earth? 400 thousand kmCorrect. The Moon is on...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...technology of printing, which allowed for the rapid dissemination of new ideas and discoveries; and the development of a humanist educational programme, based on the study of ancient Greek and Latin authors, and dedicated to the restoration of classical ideals of civic virtue and public service. When Faustus fantasises that ‘All things that move between the quiet poles...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...education and more-- an information campaign about the pros of the capacity act and how to comply with it. There's likely to be big changes in the next 10 years to mental health and mental capacity legislation. This is being driven by two main forces. The first is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability. This requires law to pay far more...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs