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Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...code you're on? And how can you check it's the right one? What does the government do with the tax revenue raised? Well, a large proportion of government spending is in a range of state benefits, so in this session you'll also look at the benefits you may be entitled to once you finish your education. So enjoy. The knowledge gained this session will help you right now,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...simple observation strategy (listed below as item 3) is further supported by an additional four aspects of medical and political infrastructure: political commitment with increased and sustained financing case detection through quality-assured bacteriology standardised treatment with supervision and patient support an effective drug supply and management system monitoring...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star
History & The Arts

Why Cilla Black was more than just a light entertainment star

...codes honed in earlier decades. This led some to lament her supposed co-option by conservatism but the shift now looks more shrewd: a fusion of novelty and tradition that fashioned her into the unlikeliest of hybrids, a pop art Gracie Fields. Cover star Singing was always a part of family life, and the infant Cilla was encouraged to perform for doting relatives. In her...
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Article 5 mins
Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research
Languages

Following Jareth through the Labyrinth: How Bowie influenced my research

...codes, Bowie's strangeness has been a powerful artistic emblem. He has underlined how difference can be a haunting experience but also one of exuberance and liberation. Despite his anguish, he also points to the possibility of belonging, for Ziggy reassuringly cries out in the song Rock and Roll Suicide:‘Oh no love you're not alone… Oh no love you're not alone… no...
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Article 5 mins
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...simple exercises. As well as keeping my metabolic rate up, if I’ve been concentrating very hard, I can move around, do the exercises, it just takes three minutes, and it refreshes me. I generally stop around five to cook supper, and then if I’m not up against a deadline, I’ll just do other stuff in the evening. If I’m up against a deadline, I’ll get back to work...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...simple – the phenomenal character of an experience is what it is like to have it. I shall also occasionally speak of an experience's ‘phenomenal properties’; this means the same...Introducing consciousness: 2.3 Some distinctions - I now want to distinguish consciousness, in the sense outlined above, from some related phenomena. This should help to clarify the...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...simple. In Berlin's case his activity as a historian and as a philosopher are intimately entwined. However, it is important to realise that philosophers don't primarily put forward empirical hypotheses: their main concerns are the analysis of concepts (such as Berlin engages in, in his examination of the nature of the two types of freedom); and the analysis of arguments.)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...simple.’ ‘I am sure that I shall say nothing of the kind.’ ‘You see, my dear Watson’ – he propped his test-tube in the rack and began to lecture with the air of a professor addressing his class – ‘it is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs