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Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment
Nature & Environment

Flowery meadows and high tech surveying equipment

...type surveying equipment to accurately measure angles and distances from fixed points, these can position the quadrats to within a few mm if the fixed objects are still present and visible and we can find the ‘origin’ position of the survey. It’s a big ‘if’ when you consider that the origin position is usually a buried dipwell somewhere in the middle of...
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Manual metal arc welding (MMA)
Science, Maths & Technology

Manual metal arc welding (MMA)

...type (C6 H10 O5 ) n – produces a shielding gas (CO). Silica (SiO2) – combines with metallic oxides to form slag. Titanium oxide (TiO2) – to stabilise the arc. Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) – decomposes to form CaO, and hence a basic slag. Calcium fluoride (CaF2)– increases slag fluidity. Sodium oxide (Na2O) – acts as a coating binder and promotes slag fluidity....
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Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...type of evidence you can gather to inform your proposed change, and how to evaluate data with a view to using it as part of this transformation. Specifically, you will learn about internal and external sources of secondary information and how to evaluate them. You will also examine how to negotiate access to different types of information in a work context. Finally, you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...phrases that tell you something about the themes of Ovid’s poem. Note them down and briefly explain what expectations you think they offer to readers about what sort of a poem the Metamorphoses is going to be. Discussion There are lots of different phrases that you might have focused on here. Your attention might immediately have been drawn to the phrase ‘shapes...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. A2 Can understand sentences and frequently...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
A linguistic toolkit for health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

A linguistic toolkit for health and social care

...De Felice and her colleague Dr Nele Pöldvere (Lund University, Sweden). They analysed 450,000 words of authentic British English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over...
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Contemporary Issues in Finance
Money & Business

Contemporary Issues in Finance

...De La Rue and ABN Amro offer insights into the various issues surrounding risk – what kinds of risk their companies are concerned with; how those risks are managed; their companies' differing attitudes to those risks. The album also explores developments in single currency, pension scheme deficits and corporate governance and explains what’s meant Forward Rate...
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Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...type of writing by Shakespeare: fast-moving comic dialogue. Activity 2 Read the passage below, from Act 3, Scene 2. It is a short piece of dialogue between Corin, an old shepherd living in the Forest of Arden, and Touchstone, a court jester who has, like Orlando, fled Duke Frederick’s court for the country. Touchstone has travelled, however, not with Orlando, but with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs