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Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...Table 1 Garden volunteering tasks and time spent on them ACTIVITY/TASK TIME SPENT Pruned trees and shrubs 2 hours Weeding, digging 2 hours General chatting with staff/tea break 10 minutes Talked to colleague about some gardens research 20 minutes Arranged and led a planning meeting about forthcoming garden open day 45 minutes Helped move some boxes 10 minutes Talked to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...Table 1 shows just some examples of words that have been borrowed into English. Table 1 Words borrowed into English FIRST RECORDED IN ENGLISH Freckle from the Old Norse freknur 1386 Bamboo from the Malay bambu 1563 Barbecue from the Spanish barbacoa 1697 Ketchup from the Chinese (Amoy dialect) ketchiap 1711 Ghoul from the Arabic ghul 1786 Pyjamas from the Urdu paejamah...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...de la Fontaine (1621–95). The moral of the painting is expressed in the final lines of the poem: A poor woodsman, covered in foliage, Burdened by branches and years, Groaning and bent, walks in heavy steps, Struggling to reach his smoky cottage. Finally, out of energy and in great pain, He lays down his load and ponders his misery. ‘What pleasure have I had since...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...de-visite, 1870s] © National Portrait Gallery, London Figure 9 Mark Twain, by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company, albumen carte-de-visite, 1870s Another writer, Charlotte Brontë, damned my favourite with faint praise: ‘I have likewise read one of Miss Austen’s works Emma – read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...table for your area of study? Discussion The interpretivist view of the world, is underpinned by the belief that we all see things from different perspectives and that knowledge is constructed through social interaction. A positivist on the other hand sees the world as a set of ‘objects’, independent of our perspective, and believes that knowledge is accumulated...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...table at the restaurant and so on. The performance of such services often rapidly declines once demand significantly exceeds (or even closely matches) the capacity to serve customers. In many cases the service quality suffers and staff become more stressed, often making the situation worse in the long run. In emergency services the response time to go to incidents rapidly...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...table below outlines the activities you will undertake in this course. What to expect Activity 1 Addressing ‘rape myths’ 20 minutes Activity 2 What do courts consider reliable expert evidence? 30 minutes Online reading Expert witnesses jailed in London after perjury on ‘industrial scale’ 10 minutes Activity 3 Should experts be immune? 30 minutes Activity 4 Which...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...table? KIDS No. ALISON GREENWOOD That must mean, you know, that somebody has voted, or a couple of people have voted more than once. So those results don't mean anything to me. In my maths lesson, I was looking at data, which is something, in year one, they haven't looked at before. It's quite a hard thing, I think, for year one to get to grips with. Remember to only vote...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs