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Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...mode of travel, and look into parking arrangements if you are going in your own car. Do the items you can take into the exam - texts, dictionaries, calculators etc. – have a particular specification? Your exam guidance should give these details if you are unsure. It is usually permissible to take light refreshments, sweets or drinks into the exam room, as long as you...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...De-hydration can lead to a very poor performance so keeping optimally hydrated throughout the day as well as during training and competition is very important. Often carrying a large bottle of water with you is the best way to ensure you drink throughout the day. Audio 1 Mick Curry The diet is very, very important. It’s no good doing what some people do and eating junk...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...de Janiero to act on this issue, and made their first, tentative agreement five years later at Kyoto. Box 3 indicates some of the likely impacts of climate change...Working with our environment: an introduction: 4.6 Global climate change continued - Box 3: Some impacts of global climate change Record global temperatures The global mean surface temperature of our planet...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of...
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Audio 5 mins
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...respiration. Organisms must maintain a minimum metabolic rate for basic functions such as cell maintenance, repair and internal transport. The minimum metabolic rate of a homeotherm is known as the basal metabolic rate (BMR). Basal metabolic rate is measured under a temperature range that does not require the generation or shedding of heat above the minimum. In other...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...de-icing project, we might include: ‘Operators shall be able to generate a de-icing schedule after one day’s training’. This is a testable statement because it is straightforward to see whether or not the operators are indeed able to generate a schedule after just one day’s training (Robertson and Robertson, 2006). Activity 5 Assume you are drawing up the...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...mode of governance uncertain, and the views taken of its future development highly contested. Figure 1: Europe in the year 2005 Two main complex paths of development led to the emergence of this new Europe. One was reflected in the reinvigorated, dynamic and increasingly confident European Community of the 1980s. This powerful vision of a modern, autonomous and more...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...de la Cité (Figure 1). Construction began in 1163 and was not finished until 1345, a total of 182 years. It is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in the world. Particularly outstanding are its flying buttresses (the external stone arches supporting the main body of the church), its large and brightly coloured stained-glass rose windows, and its famous...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs