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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...central uses of genre for any writer: You might wish to write within a particular genre; in which case, your question is – what are the defining characteristics, and possible ‘rules’ of that genre? Here, ‘reading as a writer’ is clearly important. The best way to see how to do this is to see how others have done it. Read and familiarise yourself with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...central heating system. Electrical energy is required to operate the compressor. The ratio of the heat output to the electrical input is known as the coefficient of performance (COP). For systems in the UK this typically has a value of 2 to 3. In an air-source heat pump, the heat that is drawn from the external environment is taken immediately from the outside air,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...central London, a suburb, a provincial town, a country village or a Hebridean island). They relate to a particular day. You might expect the price to vary from time to time depending upon changes in the cost of raw coffee beans, costs of production and distribution, and the availability of special offers. Nevertheless, although we have data for a fixed brand of coffee,...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...central one, which requires self-control. This is a very important measure of executive function, the brain’s ‘air traffic control system’, which helps a child analyse tasks, break them into steps and focus on them until they are done – a key predictor of success in later life. Like Christakis, Smith is interested in finding out whether there really is a link...
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Article 5 mins
Language of Poverty
Society, Politics & Law

Language of Poverty

...central to the Cameron project. We have seen this idea of, as well as skivers versus strivers, the idea, which George Osborne popularised, of the work-shy and feckless living behind closed curtains, a daily diet of poison, in Cameron’s Britain, which has, tragically, been pretty effective. Gerry Mooney: But there is something else also going on, and it has become much...
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Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...central Edinburgh – the architecturally significant medieval and early Renaissance ‘Old Town’ and the Georgian ‘New Town’ – were included in the World Heritage List. Capital of Scotland since the fifteenth century, Edinburgh's unique character, a result of its particular combination of medieval fortress city and eighteenth-century neoclassical Georgian city,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...central ideas on the function that the War on Crime has served for successive US governments. Rather than asking politicians and policymakers how government can tackle the problem of crime, Simon turns this on its head by asking if there isn’t in fact a governmental problem to which crime offers a solution. Simon suggests that by focusing on punishing crime – rather...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...central verses each use the same structure to carry their narrative. A man meets an elephant, makes an observation using his senses (‘happening to fall/Against his broad and sturdy side’), tries to understand his observation by interpreting it in terms of his previously acquired knowledge (‘the Elephant/Is very like a wall!’) and then communicates his...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs