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Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...spoke to. Oil prices could still fall between $40 to $45 per barrel. It could be like a de facto stimulus package, many say, but it's having another impact on markets. We'll have to wait and see how this will play out, over the next two to three months. MALE INTERVIEWER Let's just whizz you, very quickly, through the financial front pages. The FT energy stock leads with: 'Wall Street lowers US oil - oil dips below $50' is ......
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...de Balzac. Piketty says that, for 19th century novelists and their readers, the two ideas were used interchangeably. The book's big innovation has been to build a massive data set that allows him to look at patterns in the ownership of stuff, going back centuries. His research found that, in the 18th and 19th centuries, the value of capital grew faster than the economy at...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Languages

Describing language

...De veras no quieres el puesto? (Do you really not want the job?) veras puesto quieres el a. veras b. puesto c. quieres d. el The correct answer is c. Select the answer for Question 1b here 2. German. Wie viele Einwohner hat Deutschland überhaupt? (What population does Germany actually have?) hat überhaupt viele Einwohner a. hat b. überhaupt c. viele d. Einwohner The...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...De Grussa mastered using specialist computer software to achieve his ambition of composing music. He received an award at Adult Learners’ Week in 2012 but his real reward was that he was finally enabled to achieve his ambition...Positive risk-taking: 2.1 Care or support – what’s the difference? - There’s a subtle but very important distinction between caring for...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...de Barcelona, has been looking at the division of work between men and women in British households. What he has found is that when it comes to housework, on average women do almost four times as much as their partners – men averaging five and a half hours a week, compared with women’s 19 hours a week. Where both partners are in employment they end up working (paid and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...De)constructing Paula Radcliffe: Exploring media representation of elite running, pregnancy and motherhood through cultural sport psychology’, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, pp. 820−829. McGannon, K. R. and Schinke, R. J. (2013) ‘‘My first choice is to work out at work; then I don't feel bad about my kids’: A discursive psychological analysis of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...de force, watch this Waltz Around Saturn video produced by Fabio Di Donato who edited together highlights from the Cassini mission during its orbital tour of Saturn. Turn your sound on, because we think that fitting the pictures to this music was a work of genius. [This is an image taken from the Waltz around Saturn video.] Figure 27 Highlights from the Cassini mission...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...De Jonge and Kemp, 2012) How easy was it to decipher the meaning of these text messages? For many children it’s easy, although for others it can seem like a completely new language. Optimists view text message abbreviations as playful, inventive and creative features, but pessimists feel that they threaten more traditional standards of written English, leading to a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs