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Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...simple economic model, how demand and supply affect house prices and discuss the consequences for different types of household understand, with the aid of the household financial balance sheet, why housing may be viewed as a store of wealth...Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing: 1 Buy or rent? - Attitudes to buying or renting vary a good deal across countries....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...simple to use. There is a search bar at the top of the screen. You can type in either keywords or a particular aspect that you’re looking at. TES then narrows it down for you an awful lot. It can give you keyword matches or key stage matches so if you’re early years, primary or secondary, it breaks it all down for you. If you then decide this resource is good then you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...code responsible for building that organism in a very specific way. From generation to generation, molecular mechanisms reshuffle, duplicate, and alter genes in a way that produces genetic variation. This variation is the raw material for evolution. Mutations are 'mistakes' introduced into the genetic material used for reproduction, which can occur naturally, or as a...
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Article 30 mins
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...simple instructions can be hard when you have that knotted up feeling at the beginning of an exam!’ Activity 3 Timing: Allow approximately 25 minutes. Find a past exam paper and answer the questions listed below. You might find these in your university library or online in your course materials. It will be a good idea to write your answers down. Are there sections to...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...Simple. To save money. Small windows in new homes are a real concern for Professor Foster who, for more than 25 years, has studied how a low lux or light level can effect our internal body clock. Prof Russell Foster Outside light is incredibly bright. Even in a cloudy day in London, you’ve probably got 20,000, 30,000 lux. The equivalent in your home would be 200 to 300...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...simple-looking tables. Fortunately, for our purposes, we do not need to resolve this point, so we shall continue to refer to the table as a reciprocal table. Secondly, the Babylonians were quite able to divide by numbers other than regular ones, and approximated the results to three or four sexagesimal places. There are reciprocal tables for complete sequences of numbers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Training for speed and power in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for speed and power in sport and fitness

...simple terms speed refers to how quickly we move (for example, from the start to the end of a 100m race), while power is a combination of strength and speed, and refers to the ability to execute strong explosive movement at a fast pace (for instance, as with exploding from the starting blocks). Speed and power are closely related, and both are often important in specific...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...simple process to convert one measurement into another. For now we will focus on what is known as the metric system of measurement (we will look at some units from the imperial system later on in the session). In most cases, if you want to convert between units in the metric system you will just need to multiply or divide by 10, 100 or 1000. Take a look at the diagrams...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs