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How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...become poor due to their difficulties, and might end up in poorer urban areas, elevating the numbers. This is known as the ‘social drift’ hypothesis. People with serious mental health problems certainly do face difficulties with employment and are poorer on average. There is, however, also evidence that the conditions of the neighbourhood itself play a role,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...students passed their Maths GCSE this year at Longfield High School. 395 passed last year. Approximately how many students passed GCSE Maths over the last two years? Four armchairs cost £595. What is the approximate cost of one armchair? [Described image] Figure 9 How much for one armchair? A box contains 18 pencils. A company orders 50 boxes. Approximately how many...
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Free course 48 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than 50 years helping student achieve their learning ambitions. The short courses are underpinned by academic rigour and designed by native speakers experienced in producing engaging materials for online learning of languages and cultures. The graduating nature of the courses means that learners can...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
General Election 2015 - 79Rewind
Society, Politics & Law

General Election 2015 - 79Rewind

...become critics of the political theatre. QUENTIN LETTS We’re now pretty sophisticated about the way that we look at politics. If we look at a TV debate, we know that they’ve all been prepping like made; we know that they’re trying not to make a mistake. If we look at political events on television, we know that there is a certain amount of fraudery involved, and yet...
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How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...becomes clear. Figure 1 Major Chinese rivers and the Grand Canal in the nineteenth century, imposed on an outline of modern-day China. The loss of control of these arteries for tax, trade, grains, reinforcements, and for the emperor to reach his inland cities, was thus one factor in bringing the Qing emperor to sue for peace. As long as the British had hammered away only...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies
Health, Sports & Psychology

The suicide of The Ceasefire Babies

...students can take a course called Memory of the Holocaust: Psychological aspects. Taught by Professor Hadas Wiseman, it outlines how the traumatic experiences of Holocaust survivors have been passed down to their children and grandchildren, a phenomenon known as ‘intergenerational transmission of trauma’. Much research has been published on the subject. In 1980, a...
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Article 15 mins
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...become the iconic environmental fight of our time in the United States. RH: And what were people arrested for? BM: People were arrested for … well, I spent three days in Central Cell Block in DC for, I think the charge was ‘failure to yield’ . We were all sitting down in front of the gates of the White House. RH: And you wouldn’t move on? And you were...
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Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...student with an unending sexagesimal fraction to cope with. We have no space here to investigate Friberg's justification for this view, but it does sound plausible, especially because it is attentive to the situation in which we believe the tablets to have been produced and used. Please read the short extract from Friberg attached as a pdf. We shall then move on to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs