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Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...techniques and expertise to deal with Afro-textured hair. In the same year, when her son also wanted to donate his hair but found this was not a possibility, mum Cynthia Stroud set up a charity called Curly Wigs for Kids where African textured human hair wigs could be made and has become an ambassador for the Little Princess Trust. Research suggests (i.e. King and...
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Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator
Languages

Inside the mind of a simultaneous translator

...technique during the trials of senior Nazis at Nuremberg showcased its power. Doubts about accuracy lingered nonetheless; the UN Security Council didn’t fully adopt simultaneous interpretation until the early 1970s. “Until then they didn’t trust the interpreters,” says Barbara Moser-Mercer, an interpreter and researcher at the University of Geneva. But now the two...
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Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...technique before the interview to help you. You looked at STAR in Week 6 and you’ll recap in Section 7 this week. It is also important that you show the ability and the interest to learn new skills, so if you are asked about something that is outside your experience, you could use an example of a time when you learned something new to illustrate your willingness to do...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy with an online telescope

...techniques as you work through this short course. In this first week of the course you will start to find your way around the night sky with the aid of a powerful software package called Stellarium. This is a free-to-use program that provides a detailed representation of the night sky as seen from any location in the world. Using this software you will be able to identify...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting babies and toddlers
Education & Development

Supporting babies and toddlers

...techniques understand the role of observation and recording in supporting learning understand what reflective practice is...Week 6: Putting it into practice: 1 Observing, planning and recording - In order to make informed decisions about the opportunities and experiences practitioners provide for the babies and toddlers they work with, they need to get to know them and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...technique, I suppose, that I’m aware of using to draw people into my world is that sense of creating rounded characters, of not making them one-dimensional, but to try and give them a life, a hinterland. And it’s one of the things that I felt very strongly when I started writing crime fiction, that I’d read too many books where the victims were treated so casually....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...techniques to promote themselves effectively to the world. However, care must be taken to ensure that the process doesn’t go too far, ending with you presenting yourself in an overly polished, corporate way that doesn’t truly represent what you have to offer. Transcript This free badged course, Personal branding for career success, will help you to pick your way...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...techniques are employed to spread the spectrum of messages and so avoid some common transmission problems. However, to a determined attacker with the requisite knowledge, access to equipment and software tools, this is all possible. Tapping into messages transmitted along cables without detection depends on the cable type and connection method. It is relatively...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs