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Julian Hector - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Julian Hector - Earth in Vision

...intelligent and we can put things on radio which are different to television. So, for example, we’re just coming to an end of a 60-episode landmark on Radio 4, called Shared Planet, which really does try to look at the future, as to how people and the natural world are going to negotiate the same space and share the planet in order to survive. And that’s a very...
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Video 30 mins
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials
Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

...intelligence and intercultural sensitivity that can be applied to other situations beyond Chinese-speaking cultures. You have also heard a testimony from someone who worked in China reflecting on how speaking a little Chinese helped establish common ground in their dealings with Chinese people. If you wish to explore how hierarchy in Chinese culture affects business...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...intelligent and accomplished, the prince was also highly emotional, duplicitous, painfully susceptible to flattery, wildly extravagant, greedy for excitement and personally theatrical. The Princess Lieven, wife of Tsar Alexander I's ambassador and a notable judge of character, described him as he was in the 1820s, as having ‘some wit, and great penetration’: he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...artificial manner of painting (maniera) whose origins can be traced back to sixteenth-century Italian art. Another important school of artists based in Utrecht, a bishop’s seat with strong links to Rome, became known as the Caravaggisti because of their indebtedness to the work of the Italian artist Caravaggio (1571–1610). The Concert (Figure 13), by Hendrick ter...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...intelligent and reasonable people. But still we don’t seem able to settle the arguments about God one way or the other. That leads many other intelligent and reasonable people to a conclusion like Carl’s: there isn’t any conclusive argument either for or against God’s existence, and those who think they have found one only think that because they want to believe...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...intelligence, poor achievement, impoverished social networks and threatening life events. Indeed, these risk factors themselves expose children to more adverse life events. (Fryers, 2013) As the discussion of eating disorders in Section 2 demonstrated, young people's health and wellbeing are shaped in significant ways by social divisions such as class and gender. In the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
EPQs: why give a presentation?
Education & Development

EPQs: why give a presentation?

...artificial light? What’s best for you? what skills do you have – can you draw really good images or take great photographs? can you sum up complex ideas in a few interesting words? Making it readable A good rule of thumb is to aim for presentation slides to be readable from 2.5m away. Don’t try to crowd too much onto a slide. Aim for your text or images to take up...
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Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...artificial fertilisers and detergents) which also have to be removed. Here you will consider the important role of microbes in the sewage treatment process. Sewage is actually a mixture of all types of waste water, including rain water and domestic water from toilets, baths and sinks. When sewage arrives at a treatment works (shown schematically in Figure 5), it is first...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs