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Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...manageable chunks. Sometimes, periods can be subdivided into short time periods – perhaps the reign of different monarchs. The early modern period is usually broken down into themes that capture key features of the time...Early modern Europe: an introduction: 6.1 Society and social order - Early modern society was hierarchical. According to the French lawyer Charles...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...projecting back on to this early portrait the fully fledged Napoleonic legend of later years. However, it also helps to distinguish this portrayal from those produced once Napoleon had embarked on a political career. As we will see, the image that he cultivated as ruler shifted away from the personal qualities of the hero towards the moral virtues of the great man. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...management, who receive a bigger service charge if it is calculated last). If VAT is added first, VAT is [Text] of £76. If VAT is added last, VAT is [Text] of £87.40. Hence legally VAT must be added last!...Ratio, proportion and percentages: 3.3.2 Try some yourself - Activity 22 Answer the following questions (a) How much will this tennis racquet cost if VAT at has to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis
Languages

A brief history of communication: hieroglyphics to emojis

...manage to communicate effectively in the pre-emoji era? Language first evolved around 100,000 years ago, allowing our ancestors to communicate simple ideas like 'fire' or 'cave' or more complex ideas like 'your cave is on fire'. About five and a half thousand years ago writing was invented in Mesopotamia, when people started engraving symbols on clay tablets. This marked...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...managed by an impartial mediator. Well, our office will have an intake officer, which means that somebody rings in from the outside looking for a mediation service. And what happens is it's passed on to one of the mediators, and the mediator does what we would call "pre-case development work." That is, the mediator meets with the people separately to initiate the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
John Napier
Science, Maths & Technology

John Napier

...management of his estates remains a puzzle. Up to the publication of his description of logarithms in 1614, three years before his death, Napier was best known to the world for his Protestant religious treatise A plaine discovery of the whole Revelation of Saint John (1594), a well-received work which was translated into several foreign languages. Napier’s interest in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...management practices and crucially for us here, in the curriculum. A cornerstone of the new curriculum is that it ‘must be appropriate to every learner in every classroom’, with ‘equity and excellence at its core’ that helps to ‘develop our young people as confident, capable and caring citizens’ (Welsh Government, 2017, p. 17). An integral part of this...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...project their fears, longing and desire...Delacroix: 6.3 Western perceptions – Oriental stereotypes - The sympathy of Byron, Delacroix and others for the Greeks, in their recent wars with the Turks, had become by 1824 a major concern of all European liberal opinion. This relates to a further Orientalist strand of thought inherited from the eighteenth century: the myth...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs