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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...classed as ‘non-marketable’ assets. A third way of categorising assets is perhaps the most important for personal finance. This is dividing up assets according to how ‘liquid’ they are. Liquid assets are those that can be converted into cash easily and readily. The most liquid asset is cash. Other liquid assets include the balance on a current account or a savings...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Diagrams, charts and graphs
Science, Maths & Technology

Diagrams, charts and graphs

...Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland) © Office for National Statistics, Social Trends 29, 1999, Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland. Thus, in 1961, 14% of households...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing foreigners as weird and different: What is orientalism?

...de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888.] Picture of "El Negro" ("Negre de Banyoles", or "The Negro of Banyoles") published by Francesc Darder in a booklet for Barcelona Universal Exhibition at 1888 During the ages of European exploration and colonial expansion, the west delighted in...
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Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: y modd y cafodd bywyd un o feirdd mwyaf addawol Cymru ei dorri’n fyr gan y rhyfel byd cyntaf

...de-lis’. Bu’n gweithio ar y gerdd tan y funud olaf. Yn gynnar ym mis Medi y flwyddyn honno, daeth criw mawr o bobl ynghyd i wylio seremoni’r cadeirio ym Mhenbedw. Roedd y prif weinidog ar y pryd, sef David Lloyd George, yn eu plith, ac yntau’n siaradwr Cymraeg. Heb wybod ei fod wedi marw o’i anafiadau sawl wythnos yn gynharach, roedd y beirniaid yn unfryd unfarn...
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Sut daeth jazz i Gymru
History & The Arts

Sut daeth jazz i Gymru

...De: Y plac glas a osodwyd y tu allan i adeilad PCYDDS Dinefwr yng nghanol dinas Abertawe i'w choffáu, © PCYDDS. Roedd ei ffrindiau'n newyddiadurwyr, yn gaethweision a ryddhawydd ac yn ymgyrchwyr megis Frederick Douglass ac Ellen a William Craft, a'r gweithredwyr gwleidyddol William Lloyd Garrison a Harriet Beecher Stowe. Roedd y gerddoriaeth y byddai Jessie wedi clywed...
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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...de Bondt, 1998). Even within the field of financial economics, there is increasing interest in developing theories of market behaviour which take better account of how people really make decisions (e.g. see Fenton-O'Creevy et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...class, white-collar crime and political economy (Rusche and Kirchheimer, 1939; Sutherland, 1949) In a similar vein to Bonger’s work on social structure and crime, Peter Kropotkin’s ‘Law and authority’, published in 1898, attacked the criminal law and those who held the power to create it. He argued that processes of criminalisation were heavily skewed in favour of...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...class of ‘things’ that are seen to be the greatest expressions of culture promotes, in turn, narratives about the set of values that are seen to be the most worthy in the preservation of a particular form of state society. The heritage list, like the literary or artistic canon, is controlled by putting the power to establish the canon into the hands of experts who are...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs