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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...attention to recurring clients – the easiest way of keeping busy all the time is to keep the clients you already have. Play the long game – meetings don’t always yield immediate results. Learn to swallow your pride – sometimes you have to start a bit lower down the food chain. Sten refers to social media platform LinkedIn as a useful networking tool. You’ll...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...Attention Deficit Disorder. I’m not qualified to say if there is such a thing. I know that a great majority of psychologists and paediatricians think there is such a thing, but it’s still a matter of debate. What I do know for a fact is it’s not an epidemic. These kids are being medicated as routinely as we had our tonsils taken out and on the same whimsical basis...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...attention. In Sardanapalus several figures are highlighted so that there is no obvious focal point. These patches of light, like many of the figures in the painting, which result from individual studies (see Plates 9–12), remain distinct and separate from one another. (This is incidentally a departure from the traditional academic process of using broad areas of light...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...attention here on two particular aspects of groups. First, I examine the nature of the contracts within a group: what it is that people gain from belonging to a group and, by inference, what they contribute to the group. This focus helps to explain certain characteristic problems that arise in groups. Second, I examine the process of group development. When an individual...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...attention. The views of the critic F.R. Leavis were mentioned in Chapter Four, but Dickens's reputation as worthy of study at the highest level rests upon three pieces of criticism that preceded Leavis's The Great Tradition (1948) by several years. These are George Orwell's ‘Charles Dickens’ (Inside the Whale, 1940), Humphry House's The Dickens World (1941) and Edmund...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Making sense of art history
History & The Arts

Making sense of art history

...attention was caught once more by the figure in the centre but then I noticed the shadows on the wall. After looking at these my eye was drawn to the two figures on the right and then down to the flower placed on the table below them. After this, I wasn't tempted to look away from the painting but instead found myself looking again at some of the areas I had already...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...attention to it and to the new approaches to the artist that it introduced...Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael: 1.1 The new art history - After the Second World War, art history tended to involve a mix of antiquarianism, connoisseurship and liberal humanist values that incorporated some of the idealist notion that art is a reflection of enduring,
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...attention on the need for companies to be more socially and environmentally responsible, the focus of management accounting is changing. Knowing the cost of a product is essential for any business. It helps to ensure that the price covers all the expenses associated with producing and selling the product, while also generating a profit. Having accurate cost information...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs