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Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...Central and South America. At one time the marsupials were probably much more diverse than they are today. The marsupials that you are probably most familiar with are the kangaroos, wallabies and koalas. [Described image] Figure 8 Virginia opossum, Didelphis virginiana [Described image] Figure 9 Wallaby (Queensland, Australia) [Described image] Figure 10 Koala bear,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...central ideas associated with inclusive leadership. In a systematic review of 107 papers which attempted to address the conceptual confusion about inclusive leadership, Korkmaz et al (2022) identified many of the characteristics from the New Zealand paper (see Figure 2), but also mentioned the importance of leadership impacting upon different levels of the system (e.g.:...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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
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