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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...composite of various people that you’ve noticed or come across. And the one thing that does happen though is that as soon as the character begins to become real, he or she starts misbehaving, and they don’t do what you tell them to do. You often find yourself altering the story to accommodate your characters. Your plans always go wrong [laughs]. Narrator And now Alex...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...sang the praises of "a lover with a slow hand." Now, we all laughed at Sting a few years ago when he went Tantric, but you fast-forward a few years, and now you find couples of all ages flocking to workshops, or maybe just on their own in their own bedrooms, finding ways to put on the brakes and have better sex. And of course, in Italy where -- I mean, Italians always...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...Du Bois (pronounced so it rhymes with ‘noise’). Du Bois said that wherever he went he encountered white people with a question on their lips: Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a...
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...composition and committee structure of our governing board conducive to effective working? How do we keep up to date with changes in policy and legislation? Role of the chair Does our chair show strong and effective leadership? Do we review of the chair’s performance? Do we elect the chair each year? Do we engage in good succession planning? Is there an annual review of...
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...composition and properties of plants and the different ways in which plant products have been utilised by humans demonstrate an understanding of the contribution that science can make to informed debate on issues arising from the use of plants and the threats posed to plants and their habitats make sense of information presented in different ways, including textual,...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...composition. So when we talk about abstraction it’s not just the abstraction or the particular model. It’s the layers and also the relationships between the layers and because we usually define these abstract models in very precise terms, mathematical terms, we are able to define the relationships between these layers also precisely in mathematics. In fact all of what...
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...composition of the vaccine, there are just a few months to prepare it for the next flu season. Have a look at the current vaccine, it contains examples of the two major strains of influenza A H1N1 and H3N2 which are circulating and vaccine for the main current strain of influenza B. As there is insufficient time and resource to produce vaccine for everyone, the vaccine is...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...composition generally begins. You don't have to agree with Wordsworth about what poetry is or how best to achieve it. (Would you always want a poem to express powerful emotion, for example? I referred to Hardy's ‘Neutral Tones’ above, where the whole point is that neither of the two characters described feels anything much at all.) But the idea of contemplation is a...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs