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Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...la femme britannique la mujer británica die britische Frau a strange man un homme étrange un hombre raro ein fremder Mann...Week 7: Putting it all together: 2 English sentence structure - Now you’ll pull your knowledge of word classes, noun phrases and verbs together. Words form larger units, or phrases. And it’s these whole phrases that fit together into sentences....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...religion has increasingly come to take the place of biology in that process of construction and justification. Islam and Muslims are the ‘new black’, the new aliens who cannot be part of ‘us’, when ‘us’ means ‘the white majority’ or ‘the civilised world’. The next activity provides an opportunity to look into what has come to be called
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...religion – I think it’s founded on the fear of the body and in particular the female body. I felt completely crushed by it. And also crushed by the practice of sitting in church listening to a priest who was very angry and particularly with young people, rant on Sunday after Sunday about our sins and our evil and our inequities. And I think as a very angry young woman...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...religion, sexuality and/or disability status. Part 2 Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Revisit the case studies you chose for Part 1. Can you identify any factors about each person which could represent ‘intersectionality’? Discussion Combined factors of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, environment, education, access to healthcare and/or socioeconomic status may...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...religion (if we have one), ethnic origin, culture, upbringing, education and our experiences of life and work. Personal values are not static. They continue to evolve during our lifetime as we experience new situations and people’s behaviours, particularly ones involving conflict or difference, or ones we find surprising or offensive. These encounters provide...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...LAS, which crystallises in hexagonal planes of atoms leading to a curious response to heat. Its expansion coefficient depends on direction within the crystal: +6.5 × 10−6 K−1 in the plane of the hexagon and −2.0 × 10−6 K−1 perpendicular to the hexagon. Yes – a negative coefficient of expansion. As the atoms spread sideways the layers can pack down into their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...religion, with 2.2 billion followers. The ‘average’ person will be a 34 year-old Indian man. Wearable technology will be controlled by thought. 50% of today’s jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence. 3D printing will mean that many products are produced on location, reducing the need for transportation. Car insurance will be a thing of the past, as most...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...religion. Since Calvinist theology prohibited the use of images in churches and other places of worship – though not in secular buildings such as homes or civic buildings – this had a significant impact on the forms of art that were produced. By contrast with Rome, and indeed most other European centres of art at the time, where artists could hope to gain substantial...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs