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Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...research provided in the ‘References’ section at the end of the course to learn more about what spending is included in the definition of ‘moderate’ and ‘minimum’ retirement lifestyles. Looking at how much you need to spend in retirement can be done by listing everything you currently spend: using your receipts and bank statements will help. Then look at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...research, for example, climate models. These models can further engage the public by feeding back to them the results and uses of their data collection through public meetings. The interest in public data collection in China has been facilitated not only by smartphones and the internet, but also by the lack of transparency in the Chinese Government. In 2011, the US...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...research, to much more technical methods. In fact, collecting data on the internet has become big business. And the news is often full of data breaches, getting companies into trouble. If you’re going into business yourself, it could be very useful to understand data so you can research who to sell to and put your understanding of handling data to good use. ...Session...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...research on the topic as preparation for the discussion. This research can be done on a computer or even your phone and you will need to make notes on the topic so that you can contribute with relevant information, ideas and opinions. The other discussion will be on a familiar topic, so you will not have to research it. You still need to prepare and make notes on what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...research that Hadrian and Sabina were childless, and this could have created anxieties about who would succeed the emperor. Nevertheless, the women of the imperial household provided connections to Hadrian’s predecessors and it was important for an emperor to promote an image of familial contentment (even if rumours suggested the contrary). Sabina appeared on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...research company under contract to the Office for National Statistics.) The results of their data collection and subsequent calculations are summarised in two measures called the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index (RPI). These indices do not measure prices. (‘Indices’ is the plural of ‘index’.) Each is an index of price changes over time, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...research has been undertaken on the material evidence for ancient tourism. Whichever of these factors come into play, we hope you, too, saw this imbalance. Finally, some sources are referred to very specifically (‘Hdt 1.30’), while others are quite vague (‘colossi of Memnon and other pharaonic monuments’; ‘Pausanias’). Why is that? The precise references are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...researching film reviews on an online film database in French and make a note of all the positive and negative adjectives that you can find. Activité 20 Comparez les extraits de critiques ci-dessus aux synopsis suivants que vous avez déjà lus dans l’activité 15. Quelles sont les différences de style entre un synopsis et une critique ? Quelles sont les...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs