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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...Research found that only 20 per cent of the two-bedroom flats required to satisfy demand between 2011 and 2015 had actually been built. …Making up the shortfall in this bracket will be no easy task. Building codes — especially those enforcing energy efficiency — are getting stricter every year, says Fisher. Along with rising land prices, this is making it harder for...
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

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Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...researcher visits once or twice a day. Woodland mammals, such as mice, voles, squirrels and stoats, are collected in traps that close upon the animal when they enter it (bedding and food must be available while the mammal remains trapped because recording should never be allowed to affect the size of the population). Numbers of relatively sedentary animals (such as snails...
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...research field. So today, to make you feel part of this privilege, Venetian Crete artistic production, I have chosen a wonderful icon from that period to discuss with you and analyse. The object I will be discussing is an icon. For orthodoxy, icons are the ultimate way of communicating with divinity and heaven above. Icons function as a window that transports the faithful...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Northern Ireland)

...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...
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in 1969, where it interconnected a few sites, it is now predicted that the internet will interconnect 50 billion things by 2020. The internet now provides global connections that make web surfing, social media, and smart mobile devices possible. Watch how the internet emerged over the last 25 years and take a glimpse into the...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...research into other aspects of social activity revealed substantial limits to the backlash thesis of the 1980s. These historians argued that the 1920s formed an important moment of modernity, marked by changing expectations and greater opportunities for young women (note that they introduce an important differential here, which I will refer to again below). Moreover, they...
Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol
Society, Politics & Law

Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol

...Research Journal, 41(2), tt. 237–269. Wood, B. E., Taylor, R., Atkins, R., & Johnston, M. (2018) Pedagogies for active citizenship: Learning through affective and cognitive domains for deeper democratic engagement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 75, tt. 259–267...Cyflwyniad i greu newid gwleidyddol a chymdeithasol: Cydnabyddiaethau - Ysgrifennwyd y cwrs am ddim hwn...