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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...health a few years ago. However, no convincing scientific evidence has been produced to prove this effect. We’ve left the section on plastics in the video because it’s important to understand that science advances by testing hypotheses. This is a process which includes scientific study and debate, and can take several years, during which time scare stories continue to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...public licence, a social licence to dill in the Arctic? Not just Shell, but all oil firms, should we be going there? JB: There answer is I don’t know. Everybody will have a different view about what option they need to keep open for the long-term, some people will say that by 2050 we don’t need all this fossil fuel, by 2100 we won’t need any of it. Other people will...
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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...public money going into coal, the World Bank and others have put out reports showing there is vastly more money going into subsidising fossil fuels than there is into renewables. MR: That’s misleading. First of all they are consumption subsidies not production subsidies, so they hit poor – RH: Well some are. There are both, aren’t there? MR: No. Nearly all of them...
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Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...publications particularly interesting. For example, the UNESCO maps (e.g. the June 2014 map reproduced as Figure 1 below) appeared to emphasise the links between the compulsory access to schooling and higher literacy rates. The maps related to adult literacy seem to highlight the connection between economic development and low adult literacy rates. [Described image]...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...public and language professionals – from whom, though it addresses their problems, it must also remain independent. A third peril has been within the ship itself. At times, it has had an unruly and divided crew.’ Historically, there have been two main views on applied linguistics and they've been called, perhaps less than helpfully, linguistics applied and applied...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...publicity. The first coven in the US was started by Raymond Buckland in 1963, and Wicca was firmly established in the US by 1970. Besides a number of different strains of Wicca, many other forms of Paganism began to appear, often drawing from local pre-Christian traditions, notably Heathenism (or Ásatrú) which uses Norse mythology and Druidism based on the Celts. Rather...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...publication of prints by artists from both Italy and the north, the German master Albrecht Dürer prominent among them. Venetian printers were also engaged in map-making, not least nautical maps of the main sea-routes and ports around which Venetian trade was organised. And it has been established that ‘in the course of the fifteenth century more books were printed in...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=7290580 Figures 6, 12, 24 and 27: The Open University Figure 7: Bernard Gagnon; CC BY-SA 3.0 Figure 8: Mohammad Vahidi; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ deed.en Figure 9: WolfgangRieger - Filippo Coarelli (ed.): Pompeji. Hirmer, München 2002, ISBN 3-7774-9530-1, p. 99., Public Domain,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs