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Why do a project as part of your study?
Education & Development

Why do a project as part of your study?

...feedback on whether your ideas and plans are appropriate. During the project, the tutor can provide advice if something unexpected happens, or if you realise that the direction may need to change slightly. Sometimes it is just important to have someone to report progress to. The difference from other types of study is that you are making more of the decisions, but there...
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Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys
Society, Politics & Law

Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys

...feedback and exchange around these issues. Nele, Agnes and Alexander read extensively on the subject, and discussed it at length. The abstract nature of the game, and the sparse use of documentary footage were a result of these discussions – an attempt to strike a balance between offering an immersive, educational experience, whilst avoiding sensationalism and...
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Activity 30 mins
What happens ‘When East Meets West’?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens ‘When East Meets West’?

...feedback and 1:1 support which isn’t always possible at other universities. [Rocky road to degree success illustration ] Possibly contrary to popular belief, the students I spoke to did not experience huge issues with language or everyday tasks like finding their way around / trying new foods which you might expect when joining a traditional university. One of the...
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Article 15 mins
Surfaces
Science, Maths & Technology

Surfaces

...class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in the world of mathematics. In this free course, you will learn to classify surfaces and will be introduced to such concepts as homeomorphism, orientability, the Euler characteristic and the classification theorem of compact surfaces...Surfaces are a special class of topological spaces that crop up in many places in...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...classes? Are groups you create divided according to demographics, interests or experiences? Are groups defined by number, by space available, by age, by height, by language spoken, by family group? Do you expect teachers to teach everything they know or just something they know lots about? Can teachers spend all day teaching something they find interesting? Should you...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...La ruine de la mosquee turque (ruin of a Turkish mosque) and L'hermitage chinois (Chinese hermitage), made in icing-sugar and set under that astonishing dome. Generally, much of the effect of this room results from the repetition of the same images but on multiple scales: notice, for example, how the lotus and the dragon are repeated. The Music Room. Again, the scheme for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Who belongs to Glasgow?
Society, Politics & Law

Who belongs to Glasgow?

...class and power relations involved in identifying with a place. It is clear that ‘place’ means different things to different social groups. There are different representations of place at work at any given time, giving rise to competing or contradictory identities with the same place. These, in turn, give rise to counter-claims that the ‘real’ Glasgow is not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga

...de Souza. However, the treaty was short-lived and Nzinga escaped with her people further west, where they founded a new state at Matamba. In alliance with former rival states Nzinga led an army against the Portuguese, initiating a thirty year war. She achieved victory in 1647, aided by the Dutch, and encouraged rebellion within Ndongo, which was now governed through a...
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