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Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...Write a pen portrait of yourself, highlighting your key strengths, areas for development and any other factors that influence your ability as a leader of, or in, a team. Comment Below is an extract from Sarah’s journal notes. I think I have some leadership skills and qualities because I get on well with people, especially parents. My communication skills are good and I...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...creativity that we can equate with, the sort of creative freedom of Romanticism, particularly the works that he did without a commission. I think it's important to make that distinction in Goya's career. After an illness in 1793, he worked on a small series of cabinet paintings - a variety of subjects - he delivered these to the Royal Academy, so that they could be seen...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...writing. Let us take them in turn and see what they will involve in A211. Reading. Reading philosophy is a special skill. You can't read a philosophy book as you would a novel. You will need to approach it carefully and critically, taking much more time than normal. Different people have different strategies here. Some read each chapter or section through once quickly in...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figures 1 and 4: kentoh; Getty Images Figure 2: dima_sidelnikov; Getty...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Write brief notes below or in your notebook. Discussion Perhaps your employer or organisation provided support and learning opportunities to manage the change required. How far did this help you, or might something else have worked better? If your organisation didn’t offer you support through this change – consider what you could have done instead to explore learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...writing up their voyages for publication. These accounts are a fascinating example of extreme travel writing, of efforts to communicate an utterly new experience to the reader. Lunardi published volumes of letters; as Clare Brant has pointed out, the conventions of the epistolatory form invited readers to relive the sensations of the author in their imagination. Thomas...
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Article 5 mins
Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...writing) is the EU’s threat to quarantine Greece by suspending it from the Schengen travel zone. The political effect of such barriers is by and large symbolic, aimed more at reassuring domestic audiences than actually plugging security or halting the flow of migrants. But they do achieve one thing: they make it difficult for people to reach, not Europe’s shores, but...
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Article 5 mins
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...write a mystery novel in which the true villain was impossible to guess? The response to that challenge was a tale of strychnine and murder that launched one of the most successful careers in crime fiction. No exaggeration whatsoever: the book was published, after several years of publisher hunting, in 1920; its title is The Mysterious Affair at Styles; its brilliant...
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Article 5 mins