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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...cast in a good light is preventing an honest appraisal of failures...Making decisions: 7.5 Becoming an institutional entrepreneur - While acting in ways that are seen to be legitimate is important for both individuals and organisations, social institutions are not immutable. Some people and organisations seem to have a talent for changing the rules of the game. Some...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...cast votes for a citizen to be exiled for ten years. If at least 6,000 votes in total were cast, then the citizen with the most votes was ‘ostracised’ (or, on an alternative interpretation, 6,000 votes had to be cast against a single individual). More than 10,000 ostraka have been unearthed at excavations in Athens, in the agora (the marketplace or forum), which was a...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...Sands, called ‘by old friends, Trixie’ (p.29); the cat is Sung-Yen in the drawing room, but Sunny in the kitchen. Similarly Mr Oliver is Bart to his sister, ‘The Master’ in the drawing room and ‘Bartie’ in the kitchen. ‘”Never play”, her mother used to say, “on people’s names”’ (p.30) thinks Mrs Swithin, but that is exactly what Woolf does. Our...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...sand, Carter caught the attention of Carnavon and they dug through 3 whole rooms to get to the sarcophagus. I bet a hundred pounds that this week will go down in history. After Carnavon read the the telegram, he and his daughter rushed to Egypt as fast as they could. They waited in front of the tomb until Carter said ‘You can come in, y’know’. When they went in,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...aluminium, or timber). For operational decisions, such as how to allocate resources, management would need information about the production process, the materials and labour costs etc. An important source of information that management uses is about costs. While this information would be captured by the financial reporting system, managers need more detailed management...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...casts a reddish shadow onto the surface to its right. The black surface feature beneath the right-hand part of the plume is a lava flow that has erupted continually since 1979. Most planetary scientists were staggered to find active volcanoes on Io, but not the authors of a paper that had been published in the journal Science just a few days before Voyager 1 arrived at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...cast a critical eye upon how the school works and the standard it achieves act as a link between parents, carers, the local community, the LA and the school. As a governor your work is also informed by ‘The 7 principles of public life’ (Committee on Standards in Public Life, 1995)...5. Compulsory badge quiz: 5. Compulsory badge quiz - Now it’s time to complete the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...cast on ‘Infectious disease and public health in rural Ethiopia’ in Section 4 (Video 1), and when you read about the guinea worm eradication campaign in Section 5...Public Health Approaches to Infectious Disease: 2 The public health approach - The term public health refers to the ‘science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health’...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs