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Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...et al., 1998). Firstly, using ideas from Chaffee, they identified seven common areas of agreement on strategy (Mintzberg et al., 1998, p. 16). These are listed below, where I have added in brackets an indication of whether the area emphasises attention to variables, which are associated with situations, or perspectives, which are associated with practitioners: strategy...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...et al. (1986). Once the problem is defined, the members of the group independently and silently write down as many ideas as possible over a set period of time (typically an hour or so). Then the group comes together in order to discuss the ideas. As with brainstorming, criticism and debate are discouraged although members can ask for clarification of ideas. In the next...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...double quotation marks around phrases. Discussion If you first searched for information on Lenton herself, you may have found one or more of the following: a Wikipedia article an article on a website called Spartacus Educational a clip from a British Pathé newsreel Suffragettes Meet Again (1955). The Wikipedia page, on first look, contained an error regarding the date...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to design engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to design engineering

...Double-glazed window units Modern double-glazed windows improve the thermal performance of older single-glazed windows. Some of them even look okay. To respond to change Laptop computer My laptop makes use of a solid-state hard drive, a technology that came down in price significantly at the time of writing. ‘Just because’ Web services Web services, like Mr. doob, are...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...doubled in 45 days, Freshplaza.com, 26 November 2019. The third: LNG prices in Asia plunge 43% as new US supply hits market, Nikkei Asia Review, 26 November 2019. The last one: UK employment rate hits record high as wages surge higher, ITV News, 10 September 2019.] Figure 6 The price mechanism in action Suppliers of goods and services are assumed to be
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...double glazing there will be a benefit to that person in reduced heating bills although the installation will not generate any inflow of cash. Of course there will also be benefits to society as a whole such as the reduction in carbon dioxide and other emissions – assuming that the householder uses less heating fuel. Cash outflows are the costs and expenses (whether...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Discovering music: the blues
History & The Arts

Discovering music: the blues

...sang were not new. ‘Catfish Blues’, the song with the lyrics that gave the Rolling Stones their name, for example, was recorded by Robert Petway in 1941. Petway in turn had learned it from earlier blues singers and it is difficult to trace how far back this song goes. [Described image] Figure 3 Muddy Waters c.1979. Photo by Keystone/Getty Images (via Britannica Image...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...doubled CO2? So he comes to conferences and he defends his ideas, and there are a lot of people who’ve in some senses gathered around him and people like Matt Ridley, to hold that position of a lukewarm future. RH: Do you see this as a positive or a negative thing, the emergence of the Lukewarmers? And the absence, almost complete absence now in the UK, of what you...
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