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Watching the weather
Nature & Environment

Watching the weather

...artificial satellites has revolutionised the way in which the weather has been recorded over the last 50 years. For the first time, meteorologists have been able to routinely get a view of the whole atmosphere and of the weather systems that it contains...Watching the weather: 2.1 The view from space - Since the early days of space exploration, 'top-down' weather...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...intelligible involves the generation of narratives that can displace this functional silence, limit the productivity of the ‘invisibility’ of race. This narrative potential is radically under-developed in UK criminology (Phillips et al., 2019). What spaces and places are there for focusing on and discussing race in criminology, what special conferences are held, what...
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Video 30 mins
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...intelligence - The Department for Education’s ‘Employer skills survey 2017’ (Winterbotham et al., 2018, p. 49) highlights key skills that are reported as lacking. At the top of their list are self-management skills, comprising ‘managing own time and task prioritisation’ and ‘managing own feelings/handling those of others’. The second part of that statement...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The mother of the American Athens
History & The Arts

The mother of the American Athens

...intelligent and agreeable. The other gentleman, tall, dark, of urbane stateliness, was something more, in the touch of Oriental suavity which, more than his nose, betrayed him; and it appeared, in delightful suggestion of the old-time commercial intimacy of the Dutch and English coasts, that he was from Holland, and next morning at breakfast he developed a large valise,...
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Article 5 mins
Introduction to child psychology
Education & Development

Introduction to child psychology

...intelligence. Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests were originally developed by psychologists to identify children in France who were considered to be at risk of learning delays. The test involved presenting children with a series of questions and comparing each child’s individual performance with group averages for the child’s age. Piaget noticed that children of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...intelligently to disputes, controversies and arguments about issues. Subjects like geography develop approaches to ‘disciplined enquiry’ that use a small number of very important concepts. When these are used and grown, using real data and examples, they do not ‘tell’ pupils what to think, but help them to think about matters that are truly complex. A letter...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...intelligence, verbal ability and numerical ability Top 30 per cent for general intelligence, verbal ability and numerical ability Possible use of selection tests Education and qualifications Good general school results with particular aptitude for English Two A-levels (post-16 higher examination) or equivalent Certificate or Diploma in Management Qualification...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...artificially repeated? Discussion Some of the train sounds we hear are naturally repeated whereas with others Schaeffer has created a degree of repetition artificially. The use of repeated rhythmic sounds is a familiar feature in much popular music and especially in electronic dance music. This recording is one of the earliest examples of using recordings to artificially...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs