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Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...energies, was not what critics and public had come to expect of grand history painting. Its massive size (just under four by five metres) magnified its effect. In fact, the painting had only narrowly been voted into the exhibition by the Salon jury. The following critique, by Étienne-Jean Delécluze, a former pupil of David, was typical: M. Delacroix’s Sardanapalus...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...energy into a whole new way of life. All of that (and more) could even be happening all at once!...Introducing your Midlife MOT Your midlife years – that is, when you’re between about 40 and 60 – will probably be a very hectic time indeed. You might have ended up in a challenging job, or you might be working hard to get one. You could be looking after the kids, your...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...energy-intensive than hunting for seals and offers the bears are more secure and abundant food source. The human response in this story is entirely predictable in sending in ‘experts’ to drive the bears away, or worse cull them. Despite ecologists’ warnings that polar bears will be pushed to extinction by climate change, all the world seems to be able to do is to...
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Article 15 mins
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...energy for the benefit of your community, over and above any other paid employment you may have. Below, be inspired by five colleagues who are working in, and serving, their communities for the common good. Emily - Magistrate [Emily] “The more people in the community are represented, the better decisions are made.” Before becoming a magistrate, Emily had never been a...
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Article 5 mins
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...energy to complete daily or complex tasks (Fulghum Bruce, 2023). ICAO defines fatigue as: “A physiological state of reduced mental or physical performance capability resulting from sleep loss, extended wakefulness, circadian phase, and/or workload (mental and/or physical activity) that can impair a person’s alertness and ability to adequately perform safety-related...
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Article 5 mins
First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design
Education & Development

First steps towards embedding sustainability in learning design

...energy, for your benefit as well as the environment’s. Many existing sustainability resources already align with both UNESCO competencies and IDG dimensions. Using these as lenses to review materials through can help make sustainability more explicit without requiring major redesign. Open Educational Resources (OERs) are one way to do this. They are ‘digitised...
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Article 5 mins
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...energy resources and natural resources. This course will use it to mean all of these in line with the definition provided by Oxford Dictionaries, that is a ‘stock or supply of money, materials, staff, and other assets that can be drawn on by a person or organization in order to function effectively’ (Oxford Dictionaries, 2021). These can differentiated further between...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...energy in the stand by mode. Energy consumption contributes to air and water pollution. We advise to [sic] switch off your TV overnight instead of leaving it on stand by. You save energy and the picture tube is demagnetised which maintains good picture quality. Discussion To examine this question we need to look at the way in which the text is put together. First of all,...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs