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Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...health issues, so to me having a tutor who emails regularly would be the best. Fun can aid learning but at the moment fun is not a state of mind that I have. I would find the addition of 'fun' or forced social activities tortuous. To conclude this article, some recommendations were drawn from students’ reflective views about the relationship between fun and learning....
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Article 20 mins
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
How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...health status. Your nationality. Your full address details (especially if your CV is publicly accessible for example on job boards). School and university addresses, or examining boards. Minor qualifications unrelated to the post applied for. Choose the right type of CV How you present your skills, achievements and ambitions in a CV (curriculum vitae) are key so it’s...
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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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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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How to compare income across countries
Science, Maths & Technology

How to compare income across countries

...health started to improve in the second half of the twentieth century, followed more recently by a growth in income. But given that these countries are all so very different not least in terms of population sizes or standards of living, how can we make fair comparisons between them? Rosling's approach is to use normalised or standardised figures that try to take away some...
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