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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...et al., 2011). They didn’t like the word ‘complete’ – who is ever completely healthy? Furthermore, just because test results show some abnormality, this doesn’t mean it will ever make you ill. They questioned how health is measured: what is important, how many years you live, or how fully you can take part in society until you die? Their suggested definition of...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...et locus, n.d.) refers to the idea that to be global citizens we should act locally. A response in keeping with this view of the world would see the purpose of education as to produce citizens with an awareness of the issues challenging them in the world, a sense of responsibility to others and the skills of problem-solving, critical thinking and creativity to address the...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Dutch painting of the Golden Age
History & The Arts

Dutch painting of the Golden Age

...et delectare and the sentiment it embodies can be traced back to the declaration by the Roman poet Horace (65 BCE–8 CE): Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci (‘He who unites the useful with the pleasant is praised’). Moreover, the identification of a close connection between textual and visual sources was a mainstay of classicist art theory, which frequently...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...et al., Ethnic Minorities in Britain: Diversity and Disadvantage. London: Policy Studies Institute. Source: Smith, 1997, pp.718–20 Discussion Our spider diagram is reproduced below. Once again we wrote the extract details on the top of the page. We also thought up some questions: What is the extent of racially motivated crime and harassment? Are all minority ethnic...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...et al. (2003). What was the difference in average beak size of all adults before the drought in 1977 and the average beak size of adults that survived the drought? Before the drought, the average size of adult beaks was 9.2 mm. The average beak size of adults that survived was 9.9 mm. Explain how the average beak size of birds changed from before the drought in 1977 to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...et cetera and how you want to dip into those. It's also really important, I think, at the start when you're looking at how much, you need to consider any debt that you have. Using your 25% tax free cash that you can take from your pension can be a really good way to pay off that debt as you head into retirement. The second step is then to work out how you're going to fund...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...et al., 2003). Fine-tuning of the breathing pattern is controlled by inputs from the pontine respiratory group (Figure 16). Information from stretch receptors in the lungs is also used by the respiratory centres to determine when the lungs have expanded to full capacity. Some neurodegenerative diseases, such as motor neurone disease, are characterised by respiratory...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...et al. 2020) and such results show that reading can lead to potentially important behavioural change within society. [This image is of an oil/canvas painting by Henri Matisse, titled The Silence that Lives in Houses, 1947. The image shows two faceless figures reading a book at a table with a plant, with a window behind them that has some trees in the background.] ‘The...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs