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Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...family? If it’s for more than one person, make sure you include any income other members of the household get that they contribute to the family budget. Activity 2 What is income and what is not? Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes for this activity Sometimes people can confuse income and wealth. The former provides a cash inflow that you can spend. This is what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...family discussion - You may have grown up in a world which was very different to today’s. Perhaps there were only a few television channels, or perhaps you remember the days of black and white broadcasting, when ’iPad’ or ‘Google it!’ were not in the vocabulary. But how different was your experience of childhood from that of today’s children? Do you think it...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...family. A typical example is when you talk to someone you do not know – you would not be informal and risk being rude. Phone conversations in a workplace are often more formal than face-to-face conversations. When you answer the phone you do not know who you will be speaking to so you start by being formal and polite...Speaking and listening: 2.2 Tone - In relation to...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...history started in 1770 when Captain Cook discovered Australia. She learnt about the first convict settlements, the first settlers, the explorers who trekked across the outback, opening up trails and discovering Australia. This was the history that all Australian schoolchildren grew up with and it conditioned their mental model of their country. There was no mention of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...history of the west. There is a lot of political kudos and media exposure to be gained from spreading fear and declaring toughness in the face of it. There is a lot of political kudos in being seen to be "doing something" involving spending a lot of money on security services. It would be naive to think that senior career bureaucrats in the security and intelligence...
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10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...history. Dropbox is a file hosting service that allows users to send videos, transfer various documents and keep images safe online via cloud storage. It has been speculated that Dropbox's valuation could be up to $10 billion. It's estimated that 400 million people use the service. Do you know how Dropbox emerged out of a tech accelerator? But are these boys only...
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Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?
Science, Maths & Technology

Does maths offer a better model for multi-candidate elections?

...history, with primaries in the U.S. as well as runoff rounds in presidential elections in France, Brazil and other countries. Instant runoff and its problems With instant runoff, every voter ranks the candidates. The candidate who is ranked first by the fewest voters is then removed from the ballots, and candidates who were ranked underneath the removed candidate move up...
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Article 5 mins
Using digital tools to save languages
Languages

Using digital tools to save languages

...history by recording and publishing the languages in your environment and publishing them publicly with open licenses, and in the process, save them from joining the legions that die each year. This article is based on a talk given by the author on July 15, 2017 at the TEDx Youth@AmaatraAcademy in Bangalore, India, and was originally published by GlobalVoices under a...
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