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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France

...et c’est pour cette raison que les Français vont à la boulangerie de leur quartier au moins une fois par jour. La baguette est toujours le type de pain le plus répandu, mais il en existe beaucoup d’autres. Il y a de nombreuses sortes de pains blancs. On les distingue grâce à leur taille, de la ficelle à la flûte, et grâce à leur forme, de la boule à la...

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Activity 10 mins

Health, Sports & Psychology

Adam Peaty: the family behind the athlete

...et al., 1983; Eccles, 1993) states that if parents perceive sport to be important, they will provide more frequent opportunities for their child to participate in sporting activities based on a range of values. “We forced him to swim and we have a strong belief that all children should swim because it’s a life-saving skill.” Caroline Peaty, Mother of Adam Peaty...

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Article 5 mins

Education & Development

What is a Professional Doctorate?

...et al. (2017, p. 38), who observe that: ‘Professional identity, for its part, is understood as a construction which is dynamic, multifaceted, culturally embedded, and continuously reshaped’. In this video, you can hear Dr Debbie Chagadama (Doctorate in Health and Social Care graduate) and Dr Pauline Lyseight-Jones (Doctorate in Education graduate) talk about their...

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Languages

Getting started with French 2

...et pain bread and cheese Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 4 items in each list. Desserts glace ananas fromage et pain Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list: a.pineapple b.Desserts c.ice cream d.bread and cheese The correct answers are: 1 = b, 2...

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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs

Digital & Computing

Do people need Peeple?

...FAQ doesn’t state what Peeple would do in cases where the phone number given doesn’t belong to the person for whom a profile is being made. The site also states that only those who have joined the app and agreed to the terms and conditions can see the information it contains. But combined with the previous statement that looks a lot like someone else can create a...

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Languages

Star Wars: La syntaxe du français avec Maître Yoda

...Et maintenant, « que la Force soit avec vous »! Drag and drop may not work on mobile devices but you can still reorder the sentences in your head (or on paper) and click to reveal the answer afterwards. 1) Toujours par deux ils vont. Ni plus, ni moins. Le maître et son apprenti. Always two there are, no more, no less: a master and an apprentice. - Star Wars: Episode I...

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Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding depression and anxiety

...et al., 2003). The chances of experiencing such disorders are also increased if other risk factors are present (Turner and Lloyd, 1995). For instance, in January 2010, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that the number of suicides in the UK had risen sharply since the recession began, reversing the downward trend of the previous decade. Suicides rose by 6%...

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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs

Money & Business

The Great Resignation: temporary blip or more enduring labour market trend?

...et al., 2021, p. 6). This was reportedly because employees had evaluated their job satisfaction during lockdown periods in particular, discovered they were in fact unhappy and handed in their notices accordingly. In fact there have been claims that this level of turnover was as much driven by people leaving work altogether as it was them moving to different employment....

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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: France