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Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...English crown in 1600. It possessed its own private army, which it used to wage war to support its aim – to generate profits for its shareholders in London. The victory of Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey, in 1757, enabled the EIC, the most ‘advanced capitalist organisation in the world’, to control Bengal, the wealthiest region in the world. Bengal’s wealth...
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Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...English provided in the grid. Nom Réponse en français (the French national celebration) (a lot of noise) (a day off) (the values of the French Revolution) (a general sense of excitement in the towns and cities) (a bloody episode in our history) (not a lot) (the storming of the Bastille) (something to do with the army) (Paris and France) (a sense of freedom) Words: 0...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...English and Welsh), ICT skills, and numeracy (including higher-order thinking and reasoning skills) make sure that staff’s continuous professional development improves the quality of provision and outcomes for pupils ensure that all staff (especially those in management roles) are accountable for their areas of work ensure that self-evaluation outcomes derive from...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...English Dictionary defines it as: WOMAN ‘The faculty of being creative. Ability or power to create.’ NARRATOR The word derives from the adjective ‘creative’, which means: WOMAN ‘Having the quality of creating. Able to create. Relating to, or involving, imagination or original ideas.’ NARRATOR And this, in turn, comes from the verb ‘create’. WOMAN ‘To...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...English dictionary and Spanish grammar: Collins Easy Learning Spanish Dictionary, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0 00 718377 1; Collins Easy Learning Spanish Grammar, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005, ISBN 0 00 719645 8...Beginners' Spanish: Getting around: Sesión 1 Arte y ciencia - In this session you are going to learn how to describe places, in terms of both...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...English historian A.J.P. Taylor argued that, until August 1914, the state left the adult citizen alone and ‘a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman’ (1975, p. 25) (Taylor was writing specifically about England, but what he says applies more generally across the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...English speaking countries, England has the lowest ranking for enjoyment and the lowest for pupil engagement in reading, except Australia (McGrane, et al., 2017). So sustained time in school needs to be set aside for reading, alone and with others, for hearing narratives, poetry and nonfiction, and for book talk and recommendations through responsive use of this pedagogy....
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Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...English, by Chloe O. Davis Black on Both Sides, A Racial History of Trans Identity, by C. Riley Snorton The Days of Good Looks, by Cheryl Clarke Bad Feminist, by Roxane Gay Black. Queer. Southern. Women: An Oral History, by E. Patrick Johnson Poetry Black Girl, Call Home, by Jasmine Mans Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson HoodWitch: Poems, by Faylita Hicks Don’t...
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