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Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...de Bono, 1999) is another tool to help you think outside the box and make a balanced argument. The idea is to look at the plus (good) points, minus (bad) points and the interesting points. Activity 25 Use the PMI technique to look at the case for promoting smoking or another subject of your choice. Discussion If you chose smoking, you could put the points noted above on...
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...de Santiago de Compostela in Spain, for reasons other than seeking redemption or specifically religious benefits. But music and pilgrimage routes are also carefully designed and presented for the benefit of religious people. In these and similar experiences, religion and culture inform each other...Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture: 2 Either/or or...
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their trilateral Syrian summit on April 4, the...
Formulating research questions
Education & Development

Formulating research questions

...de Barros, C.M., Rebelo-Harris, B., Meads, C. and Saunders, C.L. (2021) ‘Are we asking the right questions? Working with the LGBTQ+ community to prioritise healthcare research themes’, Research Involvement and Engagement, 7(1), p. 64. Available at: https://researchinvolvement.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40900-021-00298-7 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Darko, N....
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...De La Rue and Neil Henfrey of Boots, now a brand for the international pharmacist Alliance Boots a banking risk management specialist – Hor Chan Head of the Department for Accounting and Finance at the Open University Business School – Martin Upton. It examines the financial risks that organisations are exposed to and how they are addressed by management. The audio...
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...de Barcelona, Spain, has been conducting research for nearly two decades on the acquisition of translation competence, defined as ‘the underlying system of knowledge needed to translate’ (PACTE, 2003, p. 16). They started by describing the characteristics that define the professional translator and then developed a model for their acquisition. The aim was to...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Getting started with German 3
Languages

Getting started with German 3

...des Westens) in Berlin (the largest is Harrods in London). Read the information about the KaDeWe given in German below. Then complete the activity that follows. [Described image] Figure 1 KaDeWe in Berlin Es ist das bekannteste Kaufhaus Deutschlands und mit 60.000 Quadratmetern Verkaufsfläche das größte Warenhaus auf dem europäischen Festland: das Kaufhaus des...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...de floorboard’. There's a sense of amazement at ‘de people pouring from de underground system’, but the comment ‘Like beans’, given the emphasis of a line to itself, suggests that this is something that won't faze her. She continues to take things in her stride, changing her ‘calypso ways’ to learn English customs, such as not visiting ‘Before giving them...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs