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My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live
Society, Politics & Law

My Interest in Cities is Really an Interest in the Way People Live

...meet, as Professor Allan Cochrane explains the motivations running through his work. It threads together studies of how people live, manage and organise their lives, drawing in both local and global networks of power and ideas. Cities allow us to understand, and are key parts of how, abstract theories and sweeping trends become grounded in local and everyday experiences....
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Video 5 mins
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...works and that this is achieved through social interaction. The classroom is a social situation which is itself very complex. Think of all the interactions which occur between teacher and learners and between learners...Week 8: Working with data and uncertainty: Tell us what you think - Now you’ve come to the end of the course, we would appreciate a few minutes of your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability
Health, Sports & Psychology

Intimate not Intimidated: It's Time to Talk about Sex and Disability

...work harder for it. You know, it’s one of them ain’t it? It’s not all coming for free, you’ve got to work for it. TOM I think what helps us [unclear 0:04:09] our PAs having a sense of humour. CHARLOTTE Especially when we call them in and like I’m still sitting on your face and you’re suffocating and… TOM I think that accidental innuendos from PAs, make us...
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Video 15 mins
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...social world around them. The body is a subject that can reveal fascinating aspects of both Greek and Roman culture it will help you to better understand the diversity of ancient civilisation...This free course, The body in antiquity, will introduce you to the concept of the body in Greek and Roman civilisation. In recent years, the body has become a steadily growing...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
We invented the weekend!
Money & Business

We invented the weekend!

...worked a six day week. Then in 1843, in Greater Manchester, workers’ rights activists launched a campaign to finish early on Saturdays. They won, and in doing so, invented the weekend – a gift to workers the world over! We’re marking this enormous achievement with a new and imaginative free festival from Salford. The festival of free time MediaCity and Salford...
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Article 5 mins
Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...Work such as communication, leadership and mentoring, whilst others help in building Everyday Skills for Life from good mental health through to managing money. We also offer courses in improving a learner’s basic maths and English and advice in writing CV’s and attending interviews to help Kickstart employees into sustainable employment should they progress...
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Electrical Discharge Wire Cutting (EDWC) and Sawing (EDS)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrical Discharge Wire Cutting (EDWC) and Sawing (EDS)

...work as well as long production runs. Computer controlled programmes used for prototype work are easily adapted for production runs. Frequently used for cutting electrodes for EDM. Machines with control of up to five axes are available with integral units for producing the “starter or threader hole” which is often required. Currents 1–32 A; voltages 55–60 V;...
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Light: Wave-particle duality
Science, Maths & Technology

Light: Wave-particle duality

...works, or proposing a new universal phonetic alphabet, Young was experimenting with the diffraction of light by narrow apertures and the interference of light due to reflection by thin films. His observations of coloured fringes in these experiments demonstrated that light must travel from place to place in the form of a wave, and the different colours comprising white...
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Article 10 mins