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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...family and social obligations. Black people are proportionately more likely to travel by bus or rail than white people (UK Government, 2020). Therefore, expensive and/or unreliable public transport will affect Black people proportionately more than it will white people. Both the cost of rail and bus journeys continue to grow year on year, a trend that has been steady...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...family business, and almost as soon as he was of age he was elected MP for Hull, in September 1780. In 1784 he became MP for the county of Yorkshire, an immense and populous constituency, which gave him an important power base. [Figure 1] Figure 1 John Rising, William Wilberforce, oil on canvas, 220 × 130 cm., Wilberforce House, Hull City Museums and Art Galleries....
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...family. “The lad came up to me and went: ‘I’m here on my own… I think I’m gay and I’m going to tell my parents about it tonight.’” In another instance, a woman who brought her “very grumpy” dad to a gig told Amos that his set had made her father rethink his views on gay people. “Oh my god, when you touch people on that level? What I’m doing is...
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Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...families and friends. And then it's obviously not good for their mental and physical health as well. SPEAKER 3 It’s the reduction of hormones, isn't it? So it would be maybe feeling very tired, mood swings, things like that. INTERVIEWER Are there any other symptoms that typically relate? SPEAKER 3 I think hair loss, weight gain, hot flushes, mood swings. These are all...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring ancient Greek religion
History & The Arts

Exploring ancient Greek religion

...history of Oropos and the Amphiareion we mainly rely on material culture (that is, physical objects which come down to us from the ancient world) rather than literary evidence. For example, objects tell us about the Great Amphiaraia, a festival celebrated in Amphiaraos’ honour which included an event in which competitors leapt in and out of moving chariots. More than...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...family. In any case, these words are far more likely to be spoken, when intonation would take the place of punctuation in helping to make sure that listeners do not misinterpret. We can use this example to illustrate that not all grammatical changes affect meaning. For example, if we left out the apostrophe in Let’s, which indicates that the u in us has been left out,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...history of mathematics and that of more empirical subjects.)...Babylonian mathematics: 1.4 A remarkable numeration system - The Babylonian numeral system was described in Section 3 as ‘remarkable’. It is worth spelling out the reasons for this judgement. Although what we notice first is that it was a place-value system (see Box 1), what is perhaps more striking is the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...family home (scan from p. 10 of Joy in People catalogue) Fundamental to the way all these works operate is that domains have particular discourse and text genres, which are composed of elements such as text organisation, font, colour, etc. The conventions associated with communication in these genres cue us into expectations about the meaning and function of the texts;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs