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An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
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An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...class] I was extremely nervous at the time when the exam results were about to be revealed. I sat on the stage, with my head in my hand, waiting for the moment of truth. Fifty of my students were sitting in front of me, plus their parents, grandparents, and teachers at Bohunt, the hall was full of people. Could I deliver the result to prove myself? Could I add merit to...
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Causal loop diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Causal loop diagrams

...variables you may not have considered before. They allow you to see how parts of a system that are separated by location or time might nonetheless interact to generate problems. They can be used as the basis for a computer simulation model. The most common behaviours modelled this way are often presented as systems archetypes (e.g. fixes that fail, shifting the burden,...
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Univariate continuous distribution theory
Science, Maths & Technology

Univariate continuous distribution theory

...variables which are described by their probability density functions (pdfs) and cumulative distribution functions (cdfs). Section 2 is concerned with moments and covers, the concept of expectation or expected value, the familiar notion of the mean, also known as the first moment, two general definitions of moments, variance, random variables linked by linear...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
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Intermediate French: 14 July

...de gauche on manque le nom de la personne qui parle, dans la colonne de droite on manque les mots utilisés en français par cette personne. If you don’t catch some of the expressions, think about the French equivalent of the English provided in the grid. Nom Réponse en français (the French national celebration) (a lot of noise) (a day off) (the values of the French...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...variable costs allows for a range of important decisions in any business. An understanding of basic cost behaviour is essential to the work of management accountants. In the final section you will look at the concept of environmental management accounting and analyse the impact of environmental costs and their implications for management accounting...This course is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...class, or the squeezed middle, to use the current terminology, but it is a very de-economised middle class, isn’t it? It is not seen as rooted in any economic framework. Prior to this, we can talk about the under class. Now, the under class was a de-classed class, it was a class beyond what was seen to......
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Nouvelles mises au point
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Nouvelles mises au point

...class The story continues The end of the story about the keeper of the drum, the toad and the Good Lord. What is a creole language? Definitions of creole as it applies to languages. Creole language and culture An explanation of the primacy of the spoken word in Creole and some traditions surrounding death in the French Caribbean. A literary movement : La Créolité...
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Simple coding
Digital & Computing

Simple coding

...variable on the left of the assignment. Each piece of data we need has to be stored in a variable. Translating Python to English, the assignment states ‘let result be the sum of 3 and 7’. The second instruction, print, prints some text on the screen, followed by the computed result. Note the following: the comma separates the two things to be printed, in the same way...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs