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Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi
Education & Development

Hip Hop, Transculturation and Ethnography in Delhi

...write this down on your blackbooks and journals.Hip hop culture is eternal. Run and tell all your friends. An ancient civilisation has been born again. It’s a fact.’ Whereas the most widely circulating ‘definitions’ of hip hop derive from those organic intellectuals who were produced by US-American hip hop culture (like KRS-One), global hip hop practitioners, such...
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Thirty-seven winters of discontent
History & The Arts

Thirty-seven winters of discontent

...Writing in The Times, Gavin Bell sounded a warning about what might follow from a winter of discontent in Northern Ireland: "The militant 'loyalists' of Ulster are emerging from a winter of discontent and preparing for a summer of murderous political violence." 1987 In Spain, a ban on political demonstrations attempted to keep a lid on simmering social tensions. Would it...
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Succeed with maths: part 1 Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Succeed with maths: part 1

...write and understand any whole number, but as you are probably aware numbers are not limited to only whole numbers. You also need ways to represent parts of whole numbers. The two ways that you do this are by using either decimal numbers, like 3.25, or fractions, such as one divided by two . You’ll start with a look at decimal numbers, and then in the coming weeks you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...writing, the UK government plans to switch off analogue radio at some stage, which means that people may need to upgrade to DAB (digital audio broadcasting) radio equipment. You might also have thought of more technical problems, such as how to transmit the large quantities of digital data required for some forms of entertainment – video, for example – in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...writing or gestures which can then be passed from one person to another. But when we start to think about it in a little more detail, it’s not quite as simple as it may at first seem. Activity 1 Part 1 Have a think about all the times and ways you’ve used language so far today. What have you used it to achieve? Could you have done these same things without language?...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...writing. She is particularly famous for her novels, including She Came to Stay (1943), and The Mandarins (1954). Her autobiography is published in four volumes: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958), The Prime of Life (1960), Force of Circumstance (1963), and All Said and Done (1972). She engaged in the traditional philosophical essay format in The Ethics of Ambiguity...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...writing job descriptions to finally assessing who to appoint...Does the recruitment and selection process fill you with dread? Discrimination and equal opportunities legislation can make this area feel like a minefield. If you are faced with appointing a new employee then this free course, Human resources: recruitment and selection, will provide a straightforward guide to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...write the same software thousands of times. Software is written once and then runs thousands of times. This new means of value generation requires a completely new approach to ways of working. This applies whether you are in a service/product design, process improvement, operations or software engineering role and whether you are a senior leader or a junior leader. Agile...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs