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Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...system boundary of the project, although it may be appropriate to represent them inside the boundary, depending on structures within a particular organisation. The project sponsor is part of the project board or project steering committee. Following the definition of roles within ISO 21500: The project sponsor authorises the project, makes executive decisions, and solves...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...think their sharp hunger would have pierced to the steaming and smoking dishes within. The very morning after I had denied that man a penny at the theatre door, and was still smarting to think I had not given him sixpence, I saw a boy of ten, in the cut-down tatters of a man, gloating upon a meat-pie which a cook had cruelly set behind the pane in front of him. I took out...
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Article 10 mins
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...think as well about the way he says it. What is distinctive about the language of Antonio’s description of the French court? Perhaps the most striking part of the speech is the long analogy he makes between royal courts generally and ‘a common fountain’. The appearance of the word ‘like’ in line 12 tells us that this analogy is a simile, a comparison of two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Make a meadow, whatever the scale and the diversity of meadows
Nature & Environment

Make a meadow, whatever the scale and the diversity of meadows

...system of channels and sluices. The time and trouble devoted to producing hay at that time illustrate how valuable the crop was. Only a handful of working water meadows still survive in England on the chalk streams of Hampshire, but similar vegetation exists on the wetlands of the Somerset Levels and the Norfolk Broads. [Photo of field with flowers] A water meadow in...
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Article 10 mins
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...system of chattel Slavery”. The Committee developed a 10-point plan, calling for: Full apology Repatriation Indigenous people’s development program Cultural institutions Public health crisis (action) Illiteracy eradication African knowledge program Psychological rehabilitation Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...thinking of it as expressed in English in the same way, when listening to somebody telling the time in Italian, picture it in your mind as you would see it on a clockface rather than translating it into English. This means that you will be dealing with only two languages at a time (Italian and numbers), therefore making it easier for yourself This OpenLearn course is an...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...Think of the percentage as a summary of all the text Turnitin has found elsewhere. Your task is to interpret that information. Let's explore how to use your report effectively. Look carefully at the highlighted sections within your work. You are looking for patterns, for example, large blocks of matching text that might suggest you have copied too closely from a source,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...System. To explain this remarkable phenomenon, a remarkable explanation is required. This has proved to be within the imaginative powers of astronomers, who have proposed that the engine consists of an accreting supermassive black hole, around which gravitational energy is converted into electromagnetic radiation. In Section 2 you will learn how spectroscopy can be used...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs