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Time management and study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Time management and study

...phrase ‘clean house, clear mind’ makes no secret that having an organised environment around you can help you manage your levels of stress. Thanks to Marie Kondo’s Netflix series, encouraging us to ‘spark joy’ while tidying our homes, a nod has been made towards the wellbeing benefits of an organised space. Putting this into a practice and organising other, less...
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Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...types - A strand of glass (or plastic, but the best performance comes from glass) has a core surrounded by a cladding, where the refractive index of the glass in the core is higher than that of the cladding (see the box on ‘Refractive index>’). Light is contained within the core by total internal reflection, which is the effect that a light ray will be completely...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...type of information that is most likely to be useful. One reason for the variation in definitions is that the form of SMA that evolves in an organisation, like accounting in general, depends on the organisational context. There is not a one-size-fits-all definition. So while the diversity reduces the clarity on the topic of SMA it may also reflect the possibility of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Inheritance of characters
Science, Maths & Technology

Inheritance of characters

...type of fat) circulating in the blood. Working back through the albums, consider those individuals who have passed away and the reasons for their deaths, such as cancer or heart disease. All these visible and invisible characters of an individual and also their medical histories are governed by their genes and the environments in which they have lived. Genes are units of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Microbes – friend or foe?
Nature & Environment

Microbes – friend or foe?

...type of food poisoning that is potentially fatal. The best known of the clostridia is C. difficile, one of the few clostridia naturally present in the human population. About 3% of adults are thought to carry it in their gut. It rarely causes disease unless the natural population of microbes in the gut has been disturbed, such as during the administering of antibiotics,...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Energy resources: solar energy
Nature & Environment

Energy resources: solar energy

...Types of solar collector. (a) Passive solar energy collectors mounted on the roof of an eco-hotel in Essaouira, Morocco. The hot water obtained from this system is also used in the local hammam, or Turkish bath. (b) A solar cooker based on mirrored plates arranged in the rough form of a parabolic mirror. The point of focus is the base of the pot, and little heating occurs...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...type of business is an accurate understanding of the external environment in which they operate. An ongoing, long-term analysis of what is happening in all facets of the external environment means that changes which impact on the business can be monitored, anticipated and dealt with appropriately. The extract below explores one way that businesses understand the external...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health Badge icon
Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...typed on a piece of paper.] Activity 7 Phrases and feelings linked to suicidal thoughts Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Watch this video from the UK mental health charity, Mind, where individuals describe their experiences of having suicidal thoughts. Suicide: talking about mental health Make a list of the phrases and feelings that are linked to their thoughts of ending...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs