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Money & Business

Working in teams

...public servant: What can we do to overcome unconscious bias?’, National Institutes of Health. Available at: https://www.edi.nih.gov/blog/opinion/unconscious-bias-and-public-servant-what-can-we-do-overcome-unconscious-bias (Accessed: 9 May 2024). Hofstede, G. (1980) Culture’s consequences: International differences in work-related values. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...public holidays. Christmas Eve – Sviatvechir (literally ‘Holy Evening’) – is the most important family gathering during the year. It is said that if someone is not at home on this evening, he or she will be away from home for a whole year. Ukrainian Christmas traditions have strong pre-Christian roots, as well as Christian interpretations. Ukrainians have a...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...health education, but in this programme the workers were explaining how batteries were expensive or unavailable and electricity supplies unreliable or simply non-existent. The programme provided Baylis with a problem, and inspired him to find an innovative solution. Baylis's invention, as you have probably guessed, was the clockwork radio, Figure 2. He wasn't the first...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...publications fall within broadly realist parameters, parameters that stubbornly persist long after realist strategies have lost their status as a ‘high’ art form, although they continue to be important in popular culture. As we have seen, historically the conventions of realism were accompanied, if not on occasion overturned, by alternative forms of representation....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...public domain. (Gale, Scotland on Sunday, 2001) The Turner Prize's potential to stimulate debate, engage and provoke is one of the reasons why we have chosen to focus on it. We will continue by exploring some reactions prompted by the Turner Prize. The Tate Gallery, which hosts the Turner Prize exhibition, encourages the general public to record their comments on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...public talk, ‘What can we do if we want to challenge climate change?’ And you said, I think it was, ‘Be willing to spend four days a month protesting and be willing to spend one of those days in jail.’ Something like that. BM: I don’t remember saying that. I’ve never, sort of, run the math in that way in my mind. RH: It may have been a flippant comment, but...
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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...public supply. Many of the newer reservoirs are for river regulation (Box 2); stored water is released into rivers when the natural discharge is low, so that it can be abstracted for use further downstream. The river itself transports the water from the reservoir so a pipeline is unnecessary. Unregulated, the discharge in winter exceeds requirements, but by storing winter...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...public outlined above. But there are key connections to draw between the middlebrow world of detective fiction and the formal experimentation that characterised more avant garde literary works in the era. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd certainly makes a case for that. In terms of history and context, Christie brings a British provincialism to the fore which, as you will see,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs