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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...article...As part of Black History Month 2021, I was invited to present my research on the contributions of Black people before and during the Tudor period. Transcript Encounters with historical events in genres that function as discursive actions within particular social, political and cultural frameworks influence how people engage with the past in which identities are...
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Education & Development

Take your teaching online

...et al. (2007) into the differences between learner perceptions of teaching in an online environment and in a face-to-face environment found that the online teacher should have a greater pastoral focus than that of a face-to-face teacher, and that often both teachers and learners needed guidance and training in communicating online. Without the ‘comfort’ of a physical...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...et al., 2011). Figure 2 The footprint as a powerful image of treading on or occupying the Earth. A UK individual’s carbon footprint arises mainly from home energy use and personal travel, including flights, and from consumption of food, goods and services...Environment: treading lightly on the Earth: 1.3 Individual and household carbon footprints - There are different...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...article about the number of young offenders in my town and decided to get involved.’ Answer She became a mentor with NACRO and worked with two young offenders before and after their release, helping them get training and eventually a job. ‘I believe passionately in human rights and wanted to make things happen.’ Answer They wanted to make their views known, so apart...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...articles, videos and household interviews describe different types of housing finance and, with the aid of an interactive tool and relevant calculations, choose between them given some different constraints explain, using a simple economic model, how demand and supply affect house prices and discuss the consequences for different types of household understand, with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...articles on The Guardian website. The next section looks at the dream of bringing all human knowledge together in one place and at the development of encyclopedias...Session 2: Getting to grips with information: 3 A short history of encyclopedias - The idea of gathering together all human knowledge goes back a long time, at least as far as ancient writers such as Pliny...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...Et voilà! Dave Myers: Et voilà! Shop assistant: Bye. Dave tries out his French 1 How does the shopkeeper respond to Dave’s efforts to address her in French? Answer The shopkeeper consistently replies to Dave in English. 2 Why do you think the shopkeeper answers the way she does, despite the fact that Dave addresses her in French? Answer We can only speculate why...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...et al., 1995) …trust is both the specific expectation that another’s actions will be beneficial rather than detrimental and the generalized ability to take for granted, to take under trust, a vast array of features of the social order. (Douglad Creed and Miles, 1996, p. 17) From these definitions of trust we can see a number of different issues emerge. Each definition...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs