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Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...writing of history...Changing places and re-telling stories: Battle of Thermopylae In this introductory activity, we suggest you take a look at the Hestia project map to try to understand more about how we can interpret the importance of the geography and topography at Thermopylae, site of a significant battle during the Greek and Persian Wars. This is particularly...
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Activity 5 mins
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...writing activity than one might typically expect if at a school, instead using more conversation and practical based learning with an emphasis on past papers, which helped them learn, analyse and understand exam technique, marking and timings. This more relaxed or informal approach was part of the reason that the system that replaced exams with TAG in 2021 did not work...
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Article 5 mins
The People on the Notes: Jane Austen
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Jane Austen

...writing at a table on a writing-slope. This image does identify Austen as a writer, but in distinctly amateur and even secretive mode; her face is averted, her shoulder turned to the viewer, and her arm cast protectively across her work. There is, in short, something unusually shifty about this depiction of a writer, and it is confirmed by the image of the house to the...
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Article 10 mins
Mary Shelley: the expert view
History & The Arts

Mary Shelley: the expert view

...write ghost stories. Mary’s effort, Frankenstein, was penned at a time when scientists were investigating the possibility of using electrical power to regenerate corpses. Her novel concerned Victor Frankenstein’s attempt to re-animate a dead body, and the dreadful consequences of his actions. Her own life was fast becoming a nightmare: Fanny Imlay committed suicide;...
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Article 10 mins
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...writing this course is to put you in a stronger position when you read about the science of genetics and listen to informed debates about modern techniques of manipulating genes, by increasing your understanding of the concepts and issues involved. Many thousands of genes have been discovered, including many that have roles in disease. These genes are scattered throughout...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...creativity'; and it's creativity that lies at the heart of all engineering. More than anything else in our professional lives, we engineers are excited by the prospect of being responsible for the creation of something better than we had before. This does not mean that all engineers are inventors in the sense that the word is normally understood (i.e. taking out patents...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...creative issues surrounding the use of archive for natural history and environmental broadcasting. ...Lawrence Breen Lawrence started working for the BBC Natural History Unit in 1988 as a Library Clerk, after gaining a degree in American Studies from Hull University. Following a series of successful attachments (including work at BBC Sound Archives and at BBC Worldwide)...
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Video 20 mins
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...write a working definition of development management apply the complexity, emergence, difference (CoDE) framework to selected cases of development management develop some initial judgements of ‘good’ development management...Discovering development management: 1 Starting your exploration - Copestake and Williams (2014, p. 149) state that: Development management is in...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs