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Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...economic impact, mainly through loss of productivity. Of course, treatment of the common cold appears to be perfectly justified both from a clinical and from an economic perspective, since (a) patients suffer, (b) there is a certain risk of much more severe and difficult to treat complications and exacerbations, and (c) secondary costs, resulting from disability, may be...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
You and your world: Introducing the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

You and your world: Introducing the social sciences

...economics and many others. These disciplines all look at the same basic issues but place a different focus and emphasis on various factors – such as the way each would look at culture, individual behaviour, social groups, trends and patterns. Within this course, you will look at a pair of social concepts: interconnection and inequality to think about how these social...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...economic conditions including funding and pay Check 6 – Who should be consulted about the analysis? □ Check back with the job holder □ Check back with his or her line manager (Source: based on Cowling and Mailer, 1981, p. 9)...Human resources: recruitment and selection: 4.3 Organisational analysis - The broader organisational requirements can be as important as the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...economic conditions within which it is operating. Changes in either the internal or the external environment may affect the operations function. Traditionally, organisations have kept the operations function separate from both its customers and its suppliers, in order to protect it from environmental disturbances (Thompson, 1967). This can lead to a ‘closed system’...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
In smokiest Sheffield
History & The Arts

In smokiest Sheffield

...economically...If I had waited a little till I had got into the beautiful Derbyshire country which lies, or rather rolls, between Manchester and Sheffield, I could as easily have got rid of my epoch in the smiling agricultural landscape. I do not know just the measure of the Black Country in England, or where Sheffield begins to be perhaps the blackest spot in it; but I...
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Article 10 mins
Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lisa Sargood - Earth in Vision

...economic situations of some of the poorest areas of the world. Releasing BBC natural history archive to the public: The consequences So I’ve spent a lot of time rummaging around in the Natural History Unit archives when I was at the BBC, initially on a project called Creative Archive which was a pilot project we did, to look at whether it was feasible to open up the...
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Video 30 mins
A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...Economics, raises some challenging questions for science educators. What contributions to science have been made by those outside the ‘Western world’? Why should school science reflect the subject's diverse roots? How can you bring contemporary international science alive for your students? Can learning science from a global perspective motivate students and so raise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...economic opportunities for Black women. Once the straightened hair was exposed to moisture, however, it would revert to its original condition. In 1906 George. E. Johnson’s chemical sodium chloride straightener, also known as a ‘relaxer’, was promoted as a less damaging hair product and a more permanent style condition. During the late 1800s and 1900 advertisements...
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