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The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...simple, two-dimensional and flat representation of the central figure of Christianity and His Mother visualises a wealth of theological issues and acts as a window that opens up and invites us, through our sight, into a spiritual world. The flatness of the background lacks any hint of physical surroundings – as a viewer you simply do not know where the scene is set. It...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...simple sequence of events through geological time...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.2 Minerals and rocks - To begin with, it is necessary to explain the meanings of the two terms ‘minerals’ and ‘rocks’...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.2.1 Minerals - A mineral is a solid material, formed by natural processes and with a...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...simple approach for establishing what and why is to ask the 5 Ws and H questions for assessing why change is needed. If you consider the decisions you make every day, you may unconsciously use this approach. For example, when you go shopping; ask yourself: What do you want to buy? Why do you need it? Where will you get it from? When are you going to go? Who needs to come...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...simple variation of it has rhyming words rather than repeating words for the A lines, creating what is known as a rhyming couplet. This pair of lines is followed by a single line that can be used as a refrain. The important thing to remember about this verse structure is its three-line format as it fits the musical structures of the blues. Love, sex and betrayal are...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...simple. It's a very simple thing to say, well, let's retrain everybody so they understand data and digital. Well, how do you do that and what do you actually mean by that? Certainly, in a business of our size, there are so many different types of employee. And actually, there are businesses within the business. Our claims department is very different to our IT department....
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...codes and make particular fun of hypocrisy and pretension. Most of the gags come from social mishaps, which escalate to the point of absurdity. All that human silliness has a social function. It's meant to make us cringe so hard we won't make similar mistakes in the real world. And no matter how anarchic they get, it all resolved happily at the end in that boring, old...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...simple questions, they help you to start thinking about your digital persona and how you use social media and networking. In your personal life, you choose what platforms/apps you engage with, what you share and whom you connect with. You’ll have an awareness of whether you are sharing to a private group or publicly to the world. Your confidence interacting online may...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...simple two-week course of antibiotics and bismuth. ‘I had developed my hypothesis that these bacteria were the cause of peptic ulcers and significant risk to stomach cancer. If I was right then treatment for ulcer disease would be revolutionised. It would be simple, cheap and it would be a cure. ‘It seemed to me that for the sake of patients this research had to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs