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Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...account of the meeting of that day by saying that the result of this meeting was exactly zero – so the war council isn’t a war council and it didn’t have the consequences that had been attributed to it. Now it’s true that John Röhl said that what happens at the war council is that war, having been planned, is now postponed. There is in my view no persuasive...
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Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing
Education & Development

Using Turnitin effectively: building integrity into your writing

...accountability’, Turnitin, 17 April. Available at: https://www.turnitin.com/blog/how-transparent-learning-practices-cultivate-student-accountability (Accessed: 24 March 2026). Oldham, C. (2025) ‘Reframing Turnitin: from plagiarism detector to formative tool for academic writing and integrity’, European Journal of Open Education and E-learning Studies, 10(3)...Using...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...accounting for 69 per cent of the country’s oil consumption (NBS Yearbook, 2007; BP Energy, 2002 and 2018). [Described image] Figure 8 China’s Oil Production and Consumption, 1993–2016 In the mid-1990s, when the shortage of domestic oil supply became obvious and irreversible, the Chinese leadership was initially tempted to insist on the Maoist principle of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...account is about the use of a different sort of laboratory science: where Lawrence's practitioners are using physiological measurements, to judge the severity of cases, Jacyna's practitioners want a diagnosis based on a tissue sample. However, the Glasgow practitioners seem to share the London elite practitioners' feeling that the proper role of the laboratory should be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...accounts from two practitioners, who describe their experience of partnership working and their understanding of the term. Sabrina Sabrina works as a youth development worker for a local authority in the English Midlands. She manages a small team of part-time youth workers and between them they provide a range of daytime, evening and weekend opportunities for young people...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...accounts committee, which investigated the project, he said: ‘This is because much of the software and hardware which has been developed could only be used by the BBC if the project were completed, a course of action which, due to technological difficulties and changes to business needs, would be, I fear, equivalent to throwing good money after bad.’ DMI has cost...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...account. The organisation is committed to helping the type of person who is likely to volunteer, or it regards developing and nurturing its volunteer force as equally important – for example, in a volunteer bureau, a self-help group, a community project, and so on. The organisation has a policy of trying to accommodate all offers of help whenever possible. Some...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...accounts to this day) and/or that none of it ever goes out to space - in which case the planet would simply heat up without limit! In reality, some of the longwave radiation from the surface escapes directly to space (at wavelengths in the 'atmospheric window'). The rest is absorbed and re-emitted (up and down) by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Back radiation from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs