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Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...artificial feel, as in Life by Gilbert and George (Plate 7), where intense reds, yellows, greens and blue are dominant. Plate 7 Gilbert and George, Life from Death Hope Life Fear, 1984, handcolouredphotographs, framed on paper, unique. (Courtesy of Gilbert and George. © Tate, London, 2005.) Activity 7: The use of brightness of colour in Paula Rego's The Maids Timing: You...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...Artificial cloning, most famously Dolly the sheep, but many other mammals and amphibians have been cloned. Jurassic Park brought the subject of artificial cloning to attention of the population at large through Lord Richard Attenborough’s character who created a dinosaur theme park. It turns out that the story contained a certain amount of ‘poetic license’; DNA...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...intelligence. Their superior numbers allowed the Allied forces to capture key locations in the hills around Cassino and the German forces, realising they would soon be defeated, chose to retreat. A group of Polish soldiers then finally captured the abbey. After this victory, the Allied forces were able to continue pushing northward, and by 4 June, they had successfully...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...intelligent voice to a whole stratum of society which had never been heard from before. We have Janice Galloway's first novel, "The Trick is the Keep Breathing", published in 1989, centred on a woman struggling out of a nervous breakdown, that's as far as possible from the old hard man character. A magic realism arrives in Glasgow fiction with A.L. KeMedy's 1995 novel "So...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...Intelligent School, London, Sage. Stake, R. (1995) The Art of Case Study Research, London, Sage. Stutchbury, K. and Fox, A. (2009) ‘Ethics in Educational Research: introducing a methodological tool for effective ethical analysis’, Cambridge Journal of Education, vol 39, no.4, pp. 489–504. Thinking Together, http://thinkingtogether.educ.cam.ac.uk/ (Accessed 13...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...intelligence conflict resolution negotiation influence. ‘Soft skills’, such as these, are important attributes of a project manager but, in turn, the project manager will also look for a mix of interpersonal skills in prospective team members with a view to influencing the group dynamics of the team...Managing virtual project teams: 1.5 Person specification - To...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...intelligent and elegant form of capitalism that puts the Earth at its very centre … and ensures that all people are its beneficiaries in recognition of our unavoidable interdependence. (Porritt, 2005, p. 324) One such hint is the rapid growth in developed country markets for fair trade, organic and sustainability-certified goods (e.g. tea, coffee, wine, timber and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...artificially softened. The UK has set restrictions on levels of water softening, and UK drinking water should now have a minimum hardness, if it has been softened, of 60 mg l -1 of Ca2+. The composition of water will vary with the type of rock the water has flowed over or through. Water flowing through igneous and metamorphic rocks usually has lower TDS values than that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs