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Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...adults with children households have the lowest levels of investments. Asian and Black ethnic groups are slightly more likely to have no investments than White households. Some of the above points remind us that investing will not be easy for everyone. It is easier to build up investments as household income increases. For those on lower incomes, investments have to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...de-icing project, we might include: ‘Operators shall be able to generate a de-icing schedule after one day’s training’. This is a testable statement because it is straightforward to see whether or not the operators are indeed able to generate a schedule after just one day’s training (Robertson and Robertson, 2006). Activity 5 Assume you are drawing up the...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...de la Cité (Figure 1). Construction began in 1163 and was not finished until 1345, a total of 182 years. It is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in the world. Particularly outstanding are its flying buttresses (the external stone arches supporting the main body of the church), its large and brightly coloured stained-glass rose windows, and its famous...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...of unsatisfactory features. It showed up again in 1924 in the doctoral thesis of Louis de Broglie (1892-1987), who suggested that entities which are normally thought of as particles, such as electrons, actually have a wave-like aspect to their behaviour. Einstein, Bohr and de Broglie all received Nobel Prizes in recognition of their work. These early developments were strikingly out of step with ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...adult patients admitted to an acute medical ward in a Harare hospital over a three-month period (apart from one patient who did not agree to take part). Each patient was tested for HIV using a standard (and an accurate) blood-testing method. (In fact, 56% of the patients turned out to have an HIV infection according to these tests.) In addition, the patients were examined...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...adult experiences of racism, misunderstanding and intimidation. I persisted with suicidal plans and attempts, and was severely depressed, with psychotic episodes of manifestations of my adoptive mother’s attempts to kill me as a child. The underlying requirement of the psychiatric system appeared to involve fully internalising the racism, to make me completely ill...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...adults and older children in their life. For example, it is common to count the number of stairs you are climbing, or the number of biscuits you have. Counting seems to be an easy skill to learn but it is actually more complex than many people think. Activity 1 How do children learn to count? Timing: Allow 5 minutes Take a minute to think about what counting entails and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
OpenLearn Ireland

The Irish Gothic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

...adults begin to panic, speculating on the link between the string of deaths, one child, Hannah, is visited by the ghost of each of her school mates within hours of their passing, often before the death has even been announced. At its heart, The Raptures is a mystery, but one that brings rural Ireland uncannily to life through elements of magic realism. Carson takes the...
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