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Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...research literature makes it clear that dieting is not very effective in the medium or long term as a method of reducing body weight. People find it hard to be compliant with a particular diet, and are also poor at simply recalling what they have eaten. Thus, food diaries are a notoriously inaccurate way of estimating an individual's total food intake. In addition,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...research. So markets can be identified in terms of their consumers and the purposes for which those consumers are buying goods, as well as in the more familiar terms of the goods themselves. Phrases such as ‘the market for medium format cameras’ are common. But a medium format camera might appeal to the serious, and affluent, amateur as well as the professional. It is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 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
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
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs