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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...social services; sustainable programmes where activities and services are not over-dependent on the skills and time of a few key staff; opportunities for services that have a different ethos from school activities and present themselves as ‘teacher-free’ zones. Explore how your school is responding to one of these intiatives in Activity 4. Activity 4 It is outside the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How does the human body fight a viral infection?
Science, Maths & Technology

How does the human body fight a viral infection?

...social aspects of testing. It is much easier for people to provide their own nasal swabs or a saliva sample to test, but such samples are more likely subject to variability and saliva samples generally have less virus to test. This means that higher sensitivity is needed. You can see that there is a trade-off between speed, accuracy and convenience in the different tests....
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...social justice in South Africa during the Apartheid struggle. Simon had a difficult time coming out to his parents, and while they claimed to support him they attempted conversion therapy by bringing him to various religious leaders and psychiatrists, when he started a relationship with a man. It wasn’t until both families discovered that they had made a suicide pact...
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Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...social media/networking Problem solving Understanding your digital carbon footprint User experience design, and digital design Coding Programming, web, and app development SEO, SEM, and content creation Data science, analysis, and visualisation Digital learning and development Digital project and product management Digital marketing and social media Digital leadership...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...social and economic upheavals saw the emergence of new democracies with written constitutions. Documents such as the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen began to lay the framework for the recognition of rights such as the freedom of speech and assembly. In these documents the development of modern human...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre...
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Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...social divide between the painter and his close patrons. I think however Goya was a sponge for new ideas. PROF FRANCISCO CALVO SERALLER I think that Goya as with all great geniuses, had no problem following orders. I think that great geniuses grow in response to their commissions, they don't see them as a humiliation. Goya was able to do both types of work, and keep a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...social status and relationships, and, in Catherine's case, her likes and dislikes, her accomplishments and pastimes. You will probably have noticed that this extract comprises a single, extremely long paragraph and is mostly concerned with describing the young Catherine Morland. This amount of detail at the start of the novel suggests to us that Catherine is likely to be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs