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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...Statistics (ONS) splits assets into financial assets and non-financial assets (Social Trends, 2010). Financial assets are those assets which are not physical things and are held in order to produce a flow of income and/or a monetary gain. Examples are money held in a savings account (which pays interest) or share holdings (which usually pay dividends). By contrast,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...statistics: approximately half the size of Earth, rocky, round, orbits Saturn. Answer Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. Figure 15 2. Vital statistics: approximately one-tenth the size of Earth, rocky, orbits the Sun, found in the distant region of the Solar System called the Kuiper Belt (like Eris). Answer Haumea, a dwarf planet. Although Haumea is rounded it is less...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...statistical studies of data on deaths from infection, which began in England in the 19th century. You will analyse two classic experiments from the history of infectious diseases to identify the key features of the scientific method of investigation. These are significant because the origins of public health and mass vaccination programmes can be traced back to these two...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...statistics about smoking affecting length of life, I took the article to be a fair description of the impact of smoking on health. On second reading, however, it seems that the figures themselves cannot be trusted. According to the doctor, they are ‘crude’ – which could mean inaccurate. This is a good example of where you can be misled by what appears to be the...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...statistics/english-housing-survey-2021-to-2022-second-homes-fact-sheet/english-housing-survey-2021-to-2022-second-homes-fact-sheet#:~:text=Households%20with%20second%20homes,-In%202021%2D22&text=Most%20of%20these%20second%20homes,100%2C000%20homes%20on%202010%2D11. (Accessed: 3 April 2024). Disney, R., Gosling, A. and Machin, S. (1995) ‘British Unions in Decline:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...statistics - In this section you will look at the people behind the labels and statistics and then hear about the work of the Scottish Refugee Council. Activity 2 The people behind the statistics Timing: 20 minutes Watch the video ‘We slept on the buses: Britain’s homeless children’ (The Guardian, 2017) and think about how it makes you feel. Make notes in the box...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...statistical analysis of observational data (e.g. the temperature measurements that feed into estimates of GMST). Where IPCC scientists were unable to estimate and quantify the uncertainties in their conclusions in this way, they adopted a ' likelihood' language, originally proposed by Moss and Schneider. This was intended to convey their level of confidence in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...Statistics, online http://www.dti.gov.uk/energy/inform/ (accessed November 2004) Energy and Environment Programme, Environmental Change Unit (ECU) (1997) DECADE Transforming the UK Cold Market, University of Oxford. Furnival, J. (1998) Suck, Don't Blow, The Gripping Story of the Vacuum Cleaner and other Labour Saving Machines around the House, London: Michael O'Mara....
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs