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How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...math) are in decline. I had to explain the difference between mean and median to a college graduate the other day. I wouldn’t generalise my experience to a whole generation, but one certainly does see more and more articles like this one. (Adapted from www.joannejacobs.com/ 2009/ 02/ unfit-for-a-college-education/ #comments) How would you describe the attitude of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...maths. While there is some truth that lawyers and laypeople can be uncomfortable with the numbers often used in expert evidence, there are ways of overcoming this problem. In Box 4, you will be reminded about probabilities, a mathematical idea that underpins much of expert evidence. Box 4 About probabilities Much expert evidence is discussed in terms of numerical...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...de facto standard. However, document management software has to be capable of accepting many different types of file, produced by a variety of applications. This complicated the technical design of the package enormously. Third, as suggested earlier, drafting and design processes, at a detailed level at least, are well denned. Engineering drawings are pretty much standard...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...de lait, which encouraged mothers to breastfeed, gave out free milk to those that could not, and provided free regular medical examinations to check on babies’ development. Charities also provided free meals to pregnant women and the mothers of small children. To improve the health of older children, municipal authorities set up school canteens to provide free and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...de-motivation, despair and self-defeat that result from a ‘culture of poverty’. As the third and fourth quotations suggest, Mead was not persuaded by the standard explanations for dependency. To him, the main cause of poverty ‘is no longer social injustice but the disorders of (dependants’) private lives’ (Mead, 1997, p. 15). This view is echoed by some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...De-oxygenated blood from the systemic tissues is carried to the lungs by the pulmonary arteries and has a PO2 of 40 and a PCO2 of 45 millimetres of mercury. As the blood enters the alveoli, the higher PO2 in the lungs drives oxygen shown in red out of the alveoli and into the blood. At the same time, the slightly higher PCO2 in the blood drives carbon dioxide, shown in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...de Clifford, who suffered death with his party chief, the Earl of Lancaster, when Edward of York took the city, and it is mainly memorable as the refuge of the Jews whom the Christians had harried out of their homes. They had grown in numbers and riches, when the Jew-hate of 1190 broke out in England, as from time to time the Jew-hate breaks out in Russia now, to much the...
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Article 10 mins
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...wrote: ‘Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte_’._ –Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, December 1656. Translation: ‘I wrote this very long [letter] because I didn’t have the time to make it shorter’. What do you think Pascal meant by this? [Photo of Claire]Figure 8 ClaireShow descriptionA photograph of Claire. Claire, whose research looks for evidence of......
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