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The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...working. Now, like the Lord of the Rings, Parliament comes in three sections. You’ve got the House of Commons, you’ve got the House of Lords, and you’ve got the Queen, God bless her. Though these days her powers are mainly theoretical. Doesn’t sound very fair. She doesn’t mind. She’s a very busy woman. So the main two are the House of Commons and the House of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...works. Most of us have some level of familiarity with poems, rhymes, cartoons, graphic novels and other forms of storytelling from our own childhood, from children we interact with as adults, or from engaging with literature for children as adults ourselves. But how does this material influence us as children or as adults? Do the books we read – or engage with through...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Building confidence in using online forums
Education & Development

Building confidence in using online forums

...work or university. For instance, most Open University courses and modules use online learning forums where learners can share experiences and ideas, raise questions and work on course tasks. 2. How do you feel about using an online learning forum? If you haven’t yet experienced using online learning forums, how comfortable do you think you would feel about posting to...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Numbers, units and arithmetic
Science, Maths & Technology

Numbers, units and arithmetic

...working with positive and negative numbers and how to multiply and divide with fractions and decimals...Do fractions and decimals make you apprehensive about maths? Do you lack confidence in dealing with numbers? If so, then this free course, Numbers, units and arithmetic, is for you. The course will explain the basics of working with positive and negative numbers and how...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...work with situations where a quantity is continuously changing and its rate of change isn’t necessarily constant. As a simple example, imagine a man walking along a straight path, as shown in Figure 1. His displacement from his starting point changes continuously as he walks. The rate of change of displacement is called velocity. [Described image] Figure 1 A man’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...works, it struggled to throw off some of the technical writing habits of academic medicine. It wasn’t until his 1973 book Awakenings that he became recognised both as a remarkable writer and a remarkable neurologist, as the book recounted his experience with seemingly paralysed patients from the 1920s encephalitis lethargica epidemic and their remarkable awakening and...
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Article 5 mins
Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?
Society, Politics & Law

Has Jeremy Corbyn changed Prime Ministers Questions for the better?

...to account. For them, real opposition to austerity will be built across the country as a whole, using the same social movement model that won Corbyn the Labour leadership. If Corbyn stays the course, we have four and half years to find out if this approach works.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?
History & The Arts

Have transgender storylines finally gone mainstream?

...work and survival around trade, transactions, drugs, pimps, friendship, betrayal, violence and care. Set on Christmas Eve, Sin Dee is happy to be out of jail after a 28-day sentence and has a secret she wants to share with Alexandra about her pimp/boyfriend Chester (James Ransone). Alexandra mistakenly guesses that she’s finished with him for sleeping around, which sets...
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Article 5 mins