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A tour of the cell
Science, Maths & Technology

A tour of the cell

...research has revealed that they have filaments assembled from proteins similar to those found in eukaryotic cells, e.g. actin. The prokaryotic cytoskeleton has roles in cell division and maintaining cell shape and polarity. Cytoskeletal proteins form long, filament-like assemblies. There are three types of filaments, formed from different proteins: microfilaments (also...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...centres, industrial activities or ecosystems). Since its inception in 1995, the Programme has offered people opportunities to acquire a living wage and new skills. In some project areas, the Programme provides childcare, community centres, national water conservation education and has also improved general health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...children, this could be expressed as a percentage: 25% of the village population are children; or as a ratio: one in every four people is a child or there is 1 child for every three adults; or a proportion: the proportion of children in the village population is a quarter. This OpenLearn course provides a sample of level 1 study in Mathematics...Ratio, proportion and...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...centres). Secondly, the success of such technologies depends on factors that go well beyond the purely technical, to include, especially, human and organisational factors, but also many others. When we talk about IT systems we mean both more than technology and – within the technology – more than software. Hardware technology is just as important for IT success as...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...Children like sweets. a. (i) All women like fashion. b. (ii) Drinking too much wine can be bad for your health. c. (iii) Studying abroad can be quite challenging. d. (iv) Children like sweets. The correct answers are a and d. Answer The sweeping generalisations are: (i) All women like fashion and (iv) Children like sweets. At university it is considered that writers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...Research Centre School of Nursing, Midwifery and Community health. Duffy, K. (2013) ‘Providing constructive feedback to students during mentoring’. Nursing Standard, pp. 27, 31, 50–6. Hardavella, G., Aamli-Gaagnat, A., Saad, N., Rousalova, I. and Sreter, K.B. (2017) ‘How to give and receive feedback effectively’. Breathe (Sheff), 13(4), pp. 327–33. Available...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...centre with the caption 'The Madras Tyrant or the Director of Directors' above it. ] Etching satirizing Robert Clive, 1772 National Army Museum Collection Why is there a statue celebrating Robert Clive outside the Foreign Office? It was not Robert Clive’s contemporaries, or the Victorians, who erected the statue in London. Indeed, Victorian governments were embarrassed...
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Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...centres all along the route. New technology, such as steam powered cranes, also helped but it was their enlightened boss that made the big difference in improving working conditions. The rhetoric embedded within rising trade unionism never turned into the class war that was feared and the Manchester Ship Canal successfully opened as the largest ship canal in the world....
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Article 5 mins