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Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...social housing and deprivation. Even though it’s technically not the ‘real’ meaning, ‘banlieue’ might be better translated as ‘inner city’ in English. Love of reading: Translators are professional writers who need to be able to write well. Wide reading is a must for developing a really good writing style. Read good novels, good-quality journalism (great for...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...social media, it could be films on YouTube and similar things to that and it can be content on websites, but the point is, they’re all coming from different places and you’re sourcing them in different ways. So what I’d like to think of more in terms is broadcast and the digital space, that is where there’s a very bright future. Using archive in the Natural...
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Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...social groups. Definition 1 Definition 2 Both Definition 1 and Definition 2 a. Definition 1 b. Definition 2 c. Both Definition 1 and Definition 2 The correct answer is a. Select the answer for Question 1b here b. Culture is something that humans learn. Definition 1 Definition 2 Both Definition 1 and Definition 2 a. Definition 1 b. Definition 2 c. Both Definition 1 and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...social skills to communicate and interact (see Section 2). You want to advance your career. A PhD is not the only option for further study in psychology, so you need to decide whether it is the best choice for your own career pathway. It is an additional degree that will certainly look good on a CV, and the skills developed in psychology PhD study will be relevant to...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...Social Trends, 2010). Financial assets are those assets which are not physical things and are held in order to produce a flow of income and/or a monetary gain. Examples are money held in a savings account (which pays interest) or share holdings (which usually pay dividends). By contrast, non-financial assets are those assets – usually tangible, physical items – that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...social networks and power relations of organisational life, including the influence of self-interest, self-promotion and/or self-preservation among the organisational members whose opinions you are seeking in your TNA research. For instance, when employees are asked to describe the constitutive components of their jobs, they may be motivated to describe an ideal job...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...social morals. Therefore, Respecting for school rules, teachers, and behaving well in lessons are not matters of being “conditioned”, but rather reflections of Chinese core values and principles. British students, on the other hand, need to seriously consider improving their general attitude and behaviour in schools. The fact that British Head teachers tend to find...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...social place, Baldwin is beginning to find ways of letting the viewer in – after all, many his readers had paid a subscription to fund his ascent. His instructions for both aerial images are involved, exhaustive. Baldwin seems to me, and to other twenty-first-century historians, to have been unique, and outstanding, in attempting to convey the sensory and visual aspects...
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Article 5 mins