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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...work, in education and in society in general. Lurraine Jones looks at the politicisation of Black hair and microaggressions experienced by Black women. ...Google ‘Unprofessional Hairstyles for Women’. Now have a look at ‘Professional Hairstyles for Women’. Notice anything? In a popular magazine article about the understudied relationship between Black women and...
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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...works of Coleridge and Wordsworth. More recently, the role of the imagination in empathy has been stressed: the ability to identify with our fellow human beings and with fictional characters being regarded as crucial in accessing other minds, enriching our own experience and developing our moral sense. In fact, in the history of western thought, the imagination has been...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...work describe some basic techniques relating to reading, for example, highlighting, note-taking and the processing write in your own words using references and quoting sources...Reading and note taking – preparation for study: Introduction - This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. You will be asked to think about how you currently...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...works? If you have, then this free course is for you. You will be looking at some of the biggest myths around criminal law and criminal courts to see how accurate a picture they are painting. You will see whether it is true that all criminal cases are tried by jury and whether convicted criminals are really let off without prison sentences. Just don’t expect any gavels!...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...working to make our detection of hoax and satirical stories more accurate as part of our continued effort to make the product better. So: Blame the people, not the algorithm, which is apparently the same one Facebook was using before it fired the original trending team. Who are these new gatekeepers, and why can’t they tell the difference between a reliable news source...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...work in sport. This will create a virtuous circle, where a more diverse workforce contributes to a more sustainable pipeline of women leaders to draw from in the future. All of which can help drive much needed change for women and girls in sport. Diversity at board level, in leadership and among the coaching pool is important in growing women’s participation in sport...
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Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...work on the Practical View. Before looking more closely at this text, however, we set the scene with reference to the state of British religion, politics and society in the aftermath of the French Revolution...Wilberforce: 2 Britain and the French Revolution - In Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) Edmund Burke (1729–97) made clear his hostile reaction to the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...working out calculations by hand or mentally. The danger, of course, is that you may use a calculator without understanding what an answer means or how it relates to the numbers that have been used. For example, if you calculate that 10% of £90 is £900 (which can easily happen if either you forget to press the per-cent key or it is not pressed hard enough), you should...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs