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Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...research at Columbia Records in America, demonstrated a 12-inch (30 cm) non-breakable microgroove vinyl disc capable of playing 23 minutes each side. Columbia called it the LP (for long-playing) disc. It revolved at 33⅓ rpm with up to 300 tracks to the inch (120 per cm). The rival company RCA-Victor seemed not to be impressed with the LP. They responded with a 7-inch...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...centre; fortnightly visits to suppliers. Pace of work is often demanding, working with strict time pressures; involves overall responsibility for a large number of contracts simultaneously. 10. Organisational requirements Must be flexible and able to work on own initiative. Must be able to work as part of a team and to interact effectively with external contacts. (Source:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...research and software design, the normal day-to-day work is carrying out projects. What then is a project? Projects vary so much that they are difficult to define concisely, but the general view is that projects are concerned with bringing about change in an organised manner. From an academic perspective, a project is: a temporary organisation to which resources are...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)
Education & Development

Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn (Cymru)

...children learn in the same school’, quoted in the OpenLearn course Inclusive education: knowing what we mean. Ar gael yn: https://www.open.edu/ openlearn/ education/ educational-technology-and-practice/ educational-practice/ inclusive-education-knowing-what-we-mean/ content-section-0 (cyrchwyd 2 Hydref 2018). Booth, T. (1996) ‘A perspective on inclusion from...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016
Health, Sports & Psychology

The refugees hoping to make a splash at Rio 2016

...Research. Attitudes toward immigrants are often divided along party lines, with 59 percent of citizens saying immigrants strengthen the country and 33 percent calling them a burden. Yet the stories of refugee athletes are filled with adversity and deserve to be heard. Misenga and Mabika, the judoka from Congo, defected from their homeland when they applied for asylum...
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Video 5 mins
Should the Americans consider the lessons of Brexit before voting this November?
Society, Politics & Law

Should the Americans consider the lessons of Brexit before voting this November?

...research, including my own, shows that they also stabilize economic partnerships. In particular, trade agreements include rules and regulations designed to limit governments’ policy discretion. One example is providing formal rules for interstate dispute settlement. Dispute settlement ties governments' hands, deterring them from introducing ad hoc policy changes. In...
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Article 5 mins
Disraeli on Munich
History & The Arts

Disraeli on Munich

...researches of another man of genius successfully analyses the encaustic tenting of Herculaneum, and secures the secret process for the triumph of modern Art. I beheld a city such as I had mused over amid the crumbling fanes of Pericles, or, aided alike by memory and fancy, had conjured up in the palaces and gardens of the Medici. Such is Munich, a city which, half a...
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Article 5 mins
Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...Research conducted by the Hansard Society in 2002 following the low turnout in the 2001 General Election suggested that people who do not vote have made that decision long before the election. The election campaign, if they noticed it at all, made no difference to their decision to abstain. We might argue about whether the present voting system (first past the post) is...
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