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Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...work with children and young people or are a teacher thinking about taking your learning to the next level? Or you might simply want to know more about research and how you can take your research interest further. On this page we have brought together a number of courses that look at aspects of postgraduate study including what it is like to study online, the skills...
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English: Personal Experiences
Education & Development

English: Personal Experiences

...working class area changed his accent. Garth Judd Garth Judd describes his experience adapting his accent to accommodate different environments. Jennifer Childs Jennifer Childs explains how she's inherited elements of her mothers speaking habits. Jung Chang Jung Chang considers the experience of growing up under Mao and how that affected her access to English. Li Xing Li...
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Handel: A Classical Icon
History & The Arts

Handel: A Classical Icon

...work for and how did he make a living? A smart political operator, Handel composed for royalty in Rome, Germany and Britain. Handel's Divas Opera singers of C18th were as famous as premier football players today. Donald Burrows reveals the scandals that made Handel's theatre the talk of the town. Handel's Samson Oratorio in Context Donald Burrows outlines the risks Handel...
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Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...worked since 1993 for the development of women, children, and strong families in the remote areas of the Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of North West Pakistan Kor (www.khwendokor.org.pk). The UK Friends of Khwendo Kor Kor (www.frok.org.uk) was established in 2002 to help Khwendo Kor's fundraising efforts. Its aim is to raise...
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Video 58 mins
Water in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Water in Ethiopia

...works. In addition to increasing pressures from a growing population, the reservoir is already filling up with silt washed down from the surrounding area; made worse by soil erosion and inadequate environmental protection. Sharing a river Conflict arises between three farming villages in the highlands of northern Ethiopia as the communities attempt to share water from the...
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Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...working in Germany, by hearing them speak and watching video clips in which they talk about themselves and their lives. Hearing and watching people describe what they do and who they are can offer you an enjoyable and interesting insight into a way of life in a different culture. You will find that the more you watch and listen, the more you understand. Exposure to spoken...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?
Society, Politics & Law

Referendum Rhetoric: keeping a-hold of nurse or leaping into the dark?

...working people in our country for years to come.’ Again, there was no time to pause for a history lesson but in its parliamentary setting, this echoes the phrase used by another Tory Prime Minister, the Earl of Derby, in 1867 during the passage of the Second Reform Bill. The crucial difference is that Lord Derby was advocating a leap in the dark and it was one which...
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How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can statistics bring dead languages back to life?

...working on the words for numbers as these have the same meaning in any language. The longest path of development simulated so far goes backwards 8,000 years from English one to its PIE ancestor oinos, and likewise for other numerals. They have also ‘gone forwards’ from the PIE penkwe to the modern Greekpente, modern Welsh pimp and modern English five, as well as...
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