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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...simple church in the crypt of the Minster when we went the next morning and were herded through it by the tenderest of vergers. Most of our flock were Americans, and we put our guide to such question in matters of imagination and information as the patience of a less amiable shepherd would not have borne. Many a tale, true or o'ertrue, our verger had, which he told with...
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Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...simple instructions, etc. The public perception of literacy is often that many adults are illiterate and that the numbers are much higher than they were in the past. After the reading you have done so far in this course, you may have decided that assessing how many people are illiterate is not a straightforward task. You may want to query the assumptions, definitions and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...simple expression, it is useful to see how you might use other calculator functions when you are faced with more complicated expressions to evaluate. The expression for the volume of wood requires the value of . You could enter an approximate value for by hand, but this is time-consuming and may be prone to error. The calculator has an approximation for built into it,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Lead and manage change in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lead and manage change in health and social care

...simple the group’s public message should be. Jack Evershed My message is a very simple one. It’s always the simple moral one, that we have an equity, that there needs to be equity of access to services to the people in Mid Wales. And especially when it comes to emergency, we deserve the same right to life as anyone living anywhere else. That is a message that’s not...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...simple matter. There is no unified agreement about what it involves. For example, in a study examining how collaboration was framed by special education programmes for US teachers (Brownell, Ross, Colón, & McCallum, 2005), half took a traditional, special education style, competency-based approach and the rest sought a collective examination of multiple knowledge bases....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...simple expression of feelings, more than what ‘really’ happened...What is poetry?: 3 What is poetry? - We can possibly best define what poetry is by saying what it isn’t. For one thing, poetry, unlike prose, cannot be paraphrased. If you could sum it up succinctly in any other fashion you wouldn’t write the poem. One can talk about the theme of a poem, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...simple answer is ‘any number that does not include a fraction or decimal part’. So for example, 3 is a whole number, but 3 one divided by two or 3.25 are NOT whole numbers. Numbers can be positive or negative. Positive numbers can be written with or without a plus (+) sign, so 3 and +3 are the same. Negative numbers always have a minus (–) sign in front of them,...
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Free course 48 hrs
Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake
Science, Maths & Technology

Dallas Campbell meets Frank Drake

...simple physics and analyse such a situation you discover it’s not easy at all. No matter how sophisticated you are. And to give you a feel for that, let’s just imagine that we had rocket propulsion engines which can get us up to say the tenth of speed of light, which by the way is about as fast as you can go without being in great danger of being destroyed because at...
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