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Introducing the voluntary sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...account for their delivery. They also have a council with elected and appointed members. Funding: the National Trust’s funding comes from membership fees (it has 3.7 million members!), donations, legacies and revenue from their commercial operations (shops, holiday cottages, cafés, etc.). They do not directly receive money from government, whereas many charities do –...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The body in antiquity
History & The Arts

The body in antiquity

...accounts of our bodily routines, they would, even if they had nothing else, already be able to say a great deal about us: the alarm clock would tell them that our society had the concept of the regular working day; our clothes would tell about which parts of our body we considered proper to cover, what it was acceptable to reveal, and how we constructed gender and other...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...account is really seminal inasmuch as it’s getting us to think about the why girls were not appearing in discourses about youth culture, about young people in public spaces and one of their arguments was that that was because young women were primarily living out their cultural lives in the domestic sphere, their bedrooms were about training up to be wives and mothers,...
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Article 10 mins
How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth
Science, Maths & Technology

How the atmosphere sustains life on Earth

...accounts for less than one millionth of the total mass of the planet. The atmospheric pressure and density of air decrease exponentially with height above the surface. The term ‘exponentially’ means that for every increase in height by the same distance, the atmospheric density falls by the same factor. In the case of the Earth, density halves for every increase of...
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Article 20 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...account: the long-term result, you’ll be left with zero.” Vanlauwe has worked intensively on what are called “nonresponsive soils,” soils that do not gain in fertility by adding nitrogen- and phosphorus-based fertilisers or other “improvements”. He says reversing nonresponsiveness is difficult – it’s a particularly resilient state, even if it is not a...
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Article 20 mins
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...accounts of Saint Patrick's life "The Irish have many lives of their great apostle, whereof the two principal are, that compiled by Jocelin, a Cistercian monk, in the twelfth century, who quotes four lives written by disciples of the saint; and that by Probus, who, according to Bollandus, lived in the seventh century. But in both are intermixed several injudicious popular...
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Article 10 mins
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...account for the way it appears as a solid ‘social fact’ in our work, but then disappears as a ‘social fiction’ from our personal lives. As is often the case, Stuart Hall put his finger on it when he reflected on how Marxism morphed into cultural studies in the Birmingham Centre for Cultural Studies in the 1980s: We had to develop a methodology that taught us to...
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Video 30 mins
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...account for the context of your business/circumstances, may be inaccurate and incomplete or it may suggest clauses and provisions that are not commercially appropriate to your business' size, sector, structure and/or jurisdiction. Conversely, you could use an LLM to help you draft an initial letter or email of complaint to another party that sets out the basic facts of a...
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Article 20 mins