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Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...education. Second Age – younger and middle-aged adulthood, while people are generally working and raising families. Third Age – after people have generally stopped working and any children have left home. Fourth Age – once people are frail and dependent. Reading 1 - (c) c.If people in the Third Age are healthy and active, how is the Third Age different from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...Education. Euromonitor (2023) ‘Bakery and cereals in the United Kingdom’, Euromonitor International. Gill, O. (2023) ‘Why Greggs is working. The bakery chain is making more dough than ever as it appeals to tradesmen and the moneyed classes alike. Is expansion overseas next, Oliver Gill asks its chief executive’, The Sunday Times (London, England), 6 August, p. 4....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...educate them on the law of armed conflict. Narrator: Ignorance of humanitarian law is something that must be fought. If people don’t even know the rules they’re supposed to obey, compliance with the law is impossible. Speaker 3: These rules are taken from international conventions that your own country has signed. Everybody has a right to be cared for when he or she...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...technological infrastructures. Second, the emphasis on the city as a distinctive form of social organism is likewise an index of the observable problems associated with the displacement and relocation of large numbers of people from different backgrounds into close proximity with one another and the ensuing challenge of forging new forms of sociability and belonging. And...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...Technology, under the direction of Rodney Brooks (Figure 1). Cog has a mechanical body (only the upper part so far), powered by electric motors and controlled by microprocessors similar to those found in personal computers. It also has a visual system, consisting of two head-mounted video cameras and a network of microprocessors for analysing their signals. (I say...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Facilitating group discussions
Money & Business

Facilitating group discussions

...technology side of it all. LISA OK, so it’s quite a heavy agenda then. I wonder, before we get started, if we could just go around the table and check that everybody knows what they want to get out from today’s meeting. So, Michelle? MICHELLE Well, I’m keen to get a definite plan in place. My team have a heavy workload and they’re all going to find it hard, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...technology course helpful for brushing up. Returning to the example of the aeroplane, the atmospheric pressure at cruising altitude (e.g. 243 mmHg at 30 000 feet or 9100 metres) is much lower than that at sea level (760 mmHg). If you were exposed to that same pressure as a passenger, the pressure in your lungs would be greater than that of the atmosphere, and you would be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...education programmes struggle to overcome basic lack of knowledge about vaccination, especially in communities where literacy rates are low and poverty is a daily fact of life. A survey of over 27 000 children in 24 African countries concluded that poor parental education and lack of access to information were critical factors in areas of low vaccine coverage. Only 71% of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs