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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...central bureaucracy, a skilled labour force and a future elite. Soviet Russia Developing a literate nation; establishing meritocracy and the basis for industrial development. Ecuador Overcoming parental disinterest and colonial gender bias. Arab states Aiming to redress gender disparities. Spain Aiming to unify geographically and culturally distinct regions. Sri Lanka...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...système de financement des films grand public 4. thèmes abordés dans les films d’art et d’essai 5. les réalisateurs marseillais 6. l’université d’Aix-Marseille 7. l’université populaire d’Aubagne 8. exemples de sujets de société et d’actualité 9. le coût de production d’un film d’art et d’essai a. 1. caractéristiques des cinémas d’art et...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...central heating! You might well be right, of course, but there is another major source of heat in the home and that is the Sun. You may have noticed that some homes, or some rooms in a home, are more of a ‘sun-trap’ than others. This is because their orientation (particularly that of their windows) towards the Sun means they pick up significant quantities of solar...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...central they are to the question of ‘how we know what we know’ in the twenty-first century and beyond. As you proceed to look at the library of Alexandria and its fate in more detail, you will also see how some of these modern anxieties have very ancient roots...Library of Alexandria: 2.1 Assessing the evidence - We shall return to the idea of Alexandria’s universal...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...central to the running of economic, bureaucratic and other aspects of the state. There were special institutions, schools, for training future scribes in the arts of writing, counting and accounting, and other necessary skills. (The attached pdf affords revealing glimpses into the scribal art and its training.) Scribal art and its training It is in this educational...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...Central Germany and in Zurich, Switzerland. Which greeting is used in which area? Bitte hören Sie. In München So, grüß Gott, meine Damen und Herren, herzlich willkommen … Grüß Gott. Mein Name ist Kappl. Grüß Gott, die Fahrscheine, bitte schön. In Innsbruck Grüß Gott! Grüß Gott! In Frankfurt Guten Tag, Frau Schuster. Wie finden Sie Frankfurt? – Äh, na ja...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...central and frontal positioning indicates their inclusion within a wider social group. By marrying, their social identities have shifted, they now have to be considered as Mr and Mrs Smith, whereas they were once Mr Smith and Miss Brown. The identity shift is, however, more significant for Miss Brown as she now has a new name. So the picture immortalises a union (a social...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How is a scorpion going to help fight brain cancers?

...central nervous system are the most common cancers. Every year, in the USA alone, approximately 1 in 285 children – nearly 16,000 in total – will be diagnosed with cancer before their 20th birthday, and more than a quarter of them will have been diagnosed with a brain tumour. In most childhood brain tumours, a complete removal improves the overall survival. Olson has...
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