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Getting started on classical Latin
History & The Arts

Getting started on classical Latin

...technology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, produced thousands more words derived from Latin, such as administration, computer, decimal, horticulture, interface, molecule, missile, satellite and superhuman. This is a huge and fascinating topic. If you would like to think about it in greater depth, you could read Latin in our Language by Peter Barker − see the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...Educated Europeans have been steeped in a notion of the ‘classical’, of the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece, since the very idea of a modern culture emerged in the early Renaissance. But an understanding of Egypt, as opposed to a cluster of myths and fantasies, does not really begin to emerge until the early nineteenth century, when the long-dead script was...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...educational engagement with the life and times of Lloyd George came in 1981, when the BBC screened an impressive nine-part drama. It is an interesting exercise to reflect on how our historical knowledge of individuals or events is constructed through layers of cultural memory. Activity Timing: 0 hours 10 minutes What do you know already about the life of Lloyd George?...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...technology for vaccine development had come a long way in the last 20 years, and I had a reasonable expectation that it could be applied quickly to the novel virus. I was much less certain about how long it would take to complete vaccine trials. However, as it happened the urgency of the pandemic meant that trials were accelerated so as to quickly identify effective...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...educational project, the request for an ‘interview’ will seem just plain strange! And if it feels strange to them that may well affect what they say to you. Second, especially when you are undertaking a practice-centred inquiry, the people you might need to talk with may not believe they have the time for a formal interview, whereas they’ll be relaxed ‘chatting’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...education and then training. This can present problems as situations can change, leading to over- or under-supply of critical resources. The next section looks at the influence of timescales on how demand and capacity decisions are made...Capacity and demand management: 6 Demand Analysis: four components of demand - Simple models of demand break down the total demand into...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...education sector, can be incredibly time consuming. Indeed, it can and does take years. A lot of my work is with the police, and partnerships might take a year of establishing trust and building relationships with individuals, and another year of working things out at an organisational level. On more than one occasion, I’ve spent time building a collaboration for it to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...technology that works like the radar speed traps designed to identify speeding motorists. In this kind of device, the exact time difference between the reflections of successive radar pulses is measured electronically, and from this the speed of the reflecting object can be calculated. Thus rainfall radar gives a means of assessing wind speed at the cloud base, from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs