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What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...work your way through this course, you will have the chance to participate in both reading and writing activities and experience for yourself what happens to you when you read....What happens to you when you read?: Introduction - Reading as a form of entertainment has a long history. Not only does a good book entertain us though, it can be an activity that brings us...
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...work, we need a few more details about his life...Form and uses of language: 1.2 The early years - He was born in 1886 into a wealthy family. After being educated at home until he was 13, he was sent to a prominent public school, Marlborough. Although he had begun to write poetry at an early age, his expectations – like those of many young men of his generation – were...
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Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...worked at the University of Sussex for all his academic life – and why are you so interested in the topic? John Röhl: My interpretation lies in the foundation of the German Reich back in 1871 and in particular in the extraordinary success of imperial Germany – this huge country in the heart of Europe – from about 1895 onwards, waiting to take over from Britain as...
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...working out where the risks lay when making assumptions about them if they are ambiguously or poorly reported. The questions that statistics asks At its heart, statistics is concerned with asking the following questions: is this thing the same as another thing, given things vary? Or: is this thing or these things behaving in a particular way, given things vary? Or: how...
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...worked through previous courses? Many courses follow a fairly steady pattern of a bit of theory, followed by an example of what the theory means in practice, followed by an exercise where the learner applies what they have just learned to another situation. Do you recognize this pattern? Have you experienced it? Have you experienced variations on this theme? What were...
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...work, better pay and working conditions, contributes to migration from poorer to richer industrialised countries. The country from which people migrate loses precious human capital, but conversely, its resident population and economy may benefit from the financial contributions made by migrant communities, and the relationships cultivated between countries. Transport of...
Two Yorkish episodes
History & The Arts

Two Yorkish episodes

...worked in the railway shops. No, they did not belong to any union; the railway men did not seem to care for it; only a "benefit union." She kept the house for her family, and herself ready to answer every hail from the steamer; but in her mellow English content, which was not stupid or sodden, but clever and wise, it was as if it were she, rather than the archbishop,...
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...work with male leaders, for example, by issuing a faith leaders declaration against female genital mutilation. Despite the government’s position, there are a few successful examples of promising practice prevention work led by black and ethnic minority women, which should be replicated or scaled up by the state. The Southall Black Sisters whole school’s project showed...