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Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...Central Bank and a wholly weakened European Commission in the context of an informal grouping, the Eurogroup, lacking specific rules, without minutes of the proceedings, and completely under the thumb of one finance minister and the troika of lenders. Moreover, the troika was terribly fragmented, with many contradictory agendas in play, the result being that the “terms...
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Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: exploring the concept

...central role of pleasure and its linked compatriot – choice – in developing lifelong readers. It is surely a professional responsibility to nurture readers who engage deeply, creatively and critically with the meanings and possibilities offered. Reading engagement and reading for meaning Reading engagement, a multidimensional construct studied in settings such as...
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Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...central feature of an effective coach-performer relationship. A human coach would likely be better at reading their gymnast’s body language and adapt their coaching to make the gymnast feel more comfortable. Many also expressed concerns that increased AI usage may remove the individualism and artistry of the sport, which is one of the main attractions for spectators and...
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A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...central aisle in the nave up the red platform steps, past the choir stalls to the high altar in the Sanctuary. I recall a woman in a reclining wheelchair at the back of the South side aisle near the Lady Chapel as the procession moved slowly around the cathedral, which was packed with people, many of whom could not see much of what was going on. [Archbishop Desmond Tutu...
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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...central in the rest of the play, but the scene in the Top Girls agency with which it now starts is not an exposition in the traditional sense. It perhaps makes more sense when discussing drama of the twentieth century and later to think of exposition in terms of themes. In working out the structure of a play, particularly where the acts are divided into a number of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...central London. As the novel opens, Winston is harbouring subversive thoughts. As an act of rebellion, he has purchased a notebook with the intention of keeping a diary – an act punishable by death or, at the very least, 25 years in a forced labour camp. Activity 2 What significance do you attach to Orwell’s terminology here: ‘the Ministry of Truth’ and ‘the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...central to coming to terms with recent art history and we will now turn our attention to it and to the new approaches to the artist that it introduced...Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael: 1.1 The new art history - After the Second World War, art history tended to involve a mix of antiquarianism, connoisseurship and liberal humanist values that incorporated some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows
Nature & Environment

Environment: understanding atmospheric and ocean flows

...central part of an atom). Water molecules in the ice have a proportion of all three isotopes of oxygen in them, and it has been shown that the relative amounts of the different isotopes vary depending on the temperature of the oceans at the time the snow fell. So scientists can measure the amount of oxygen-16 compared with the amount of oxygen-18 in an annual layer of an...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs