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Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...health care, education, and defence? Whether we should generate electricity using nuclear power, solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...public support (paragraph 4) The section on police complaints (paragraph 14) Again, you might have pinpointed different sections of the article, but the main thing is that you were able to use this technique in order to identify more specific information than had been possible using the scanning approach. Both skimming and scanning generate different kinds of information...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...publication. Do keep this in mind, especially as you may find some examples more accessible than others. The idiom and register of a poem written in the eighteenth century will usually be quite different from one written in the twentieth. Different verse forms are popular at different times: while sonnets have been written for centuries, they were especially fashionable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...publication, called Excellence in Schools, and published in 1997. Therefore, the UK Government published the data. The data relates to the amount of homework and television that children in their last year of primary school were doing – in other words, while they were aged about 11 or 12. If you look at this article carefully, you will see that the last paragraph of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...publicity material, navigating websites, talking to advisors on the phone, filling in online forms, paying fees, and so on. Each of these were touchpoints with your selected brand, and each constituted an experience of some sort, good or otherwise. The touchpoints continue to proliferate as you embark on using the product or service and experience after-sales...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...Public Administration at Harvard. He worked for a number of years as an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and at the London Business School before joining the BBC in 1993 as an economics correspondent for radio and television. In 1997, he became Economist Editor on BBC2’s Newsnight programme, and four years after that he was appointed BBC Economics Editor...
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Article 5 mins
Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast
History & The Arts

Ian Kershaw on Hitler's Place In History: The Lecture Podcast

...public gathering of historians I think I may have damaged his career very slightly by suggesting he would have also made an excellent television producer. Ian of course is one of the world experts though, if not the single greatest expert on the life and times of Adolf Hitler. His two volume epic biography of the Nazi dictator is now the standard text on the subject, and...
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Audio 45 mins
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...public rituals. This course asks some very basic questions – What do we mean by ‘early modern’? What was ‘Europe’ at this time? – and introduces you to a set of themes that will help to structure your understanding. So, it’s time to leave Venice and the Doge’s barge, and turn to early modern Europe, its society and culture...Early modern Europe: an...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs