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Describing language

...intelligent, demanding, grumpy, inspiring … busy, exciting, peaceful, polluted … huge, old-fashioned, fancy, small …...Week 5: Adjectives: adding more information: 1.1 Finding the adjectives - As with nouns and verbs, you’ve been using adjectives almost as long as you’ve been using English. When learning the language as children we will, very early on, know the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate justice for the next generation
Education & Development

Climate justice for the next generation

...artificial and plastic, especially in the Western world. So I was interested, for instance, are there toys that children think are really actually very, really quite crucial to their identities or are there prosthetic limbs or their use in glasses or hearing aids or other things that we, in our modern world, couldn't do without. HEATHER MONTGOMERY And I know the project...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Additive manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Additive manufacturing

...artificial bones possible, such as this jawbone There are also applications in the area of repair. Jet and gas turbine blades are routinely damaged but are expensive to replace. AM has been used to repair just the tip of these blades, saving a considerable amount of money (Figure 5). [Described image] Figure 5 Gas turbine blades with tip repairs These kinds of specialist...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...artificiality that guarantees their success, for the laboured tone of group exercises and away-day seminars allows workers to protest that they have nothing whatsoever to learn from submitting to such disciplines. Then, like guests at a house party who at first mock their host’s suggestion of a round of Pictionary, they may be surprised to find themselves, as the game...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...Intelligent Enterprise, New York, Free Press. ’t Hart, P. (2014) Understanding Public Leadership, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan. Worrall, L. and Cooper, C. (2014) ‘The effect of the recession on the quality of working life of UK managers: an empirical study’, International Journal of Management Practice, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1–18...Week 2: Leading change for...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...artificially added to this equation. The equation can, as a result, be re-arranged to give us the expression: (WM − WF) = (a0 − b0) + b1(EM − EF) + (a1 − b1) EM The equation shows that the average wage differential – the difference in average earnings between men and women – is made up of three components. The first term: (a0 − b0) is the part of the gender...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...artificial platform (145 by 100 metres). The highly visible Greek-style temple was built on top of this. Building took time. The temple was dedicated by Hadrian on 21 April 121 CE, one of the few occasions when he was in Rome, but was not completed until at least 135 CE. It may not have been completed by Hadrian at all, but by his successor, Antoninus Pius. The visible...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...intelligence is that sense of internal balance within us that enables us to keep our composure, make good decisions, communicate effectively, which all really aides us to develop and maintain healthy relationships. So being involved and connected is the last resilience factor of the Welsh research, and that's about having a sense of belonging and acceptance within our...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs