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Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...Write down your conversion rate with the single unit on the left-hand side: £1 = €1.15 Next, you write down the figure you are converting under the correct side. In this case it is the £300 cash you are changing, so this figure needs to go under the pounds (£) side: £1 = €1.15 £300 = €? This will help you to work out whether you need to go forwards (in which...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...write your answers in the text boxes provided against each of the activities and refer back to them or edit your answers at any time. You also have the option of downloading your answers by clicking on the link (‘Download your answers for the documents on this course’) that appears on the left-hand side of each course page. The course has six quizzes to test your...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...writings of Athenian historian Thucydides. In the course of narrating the history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides incorporated many pairs of speeches arguing opposing points of view that reveal how politicians sought to put down, outmaneuver and even humiliate their rivals. Any student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled...
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Article 5 mins
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...write about them creatively. The armistice of November, 1918 has been represented many times in the post-war drama, poetry and fiction produced in ex-combatant countries and elsewhere too. [Ford Madox Ford] Ford Madox Ford Using one of its most well-known novelistic representations, A Man Could Stand Up-, volume 3 of Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford, I’m going to...
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Article 15 mins
Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776] As Americans shape their own destiny; can Britain survive such a blow? To the independent Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of Hampshire Inertia et mollita animi alius expectantes cucnctarnini: My virtuous Countrymen, Now is the time for spirited and manly exertion. Our all is at stake. The activity and zeal of every...
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Article 5 mins
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...Writing at the Institute For Government, Oliver Ilott suggests the main barrier to cross is the tariff barrier: A trade deal between the US and UK may attempt to remove tariffs in areas where they are high. These are almost all in agriculture. On the US side, there are 22 import duty rates above 100%, all on agricultural products. This makes some agricultural goods...
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Article 10 mins
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...write better essays and describe themselves as more focused on school than students in the second kind of group. In short, how students interpret their everyday difficulties with school matters. Is there a pattern? Is there a way to predict how students might interpret difficulty and ease? In the same 1,000-person set of studies, we asked people to rate how much they...
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Article 5 mins
Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Simplistic models for understanding Coronavirus: Helpful or harmful?

...writing. He states the UK government’s strategy was not his idea and identifies himself as a Podiatrist, not an epidemiologist. His stated intent is to “amplify the people who ARE experts". By this he means “people like the excellent Prof Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance (as opposed to all the overnight virologists I see in the comments)”. However, these experts...
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Article 15 mins