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Could we control our climate? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Could we control our climate?

...economic scenario of possible population, global domestic product (GDP), energy usage and sources, and so on. This scenario is then translated into a set of: a.greenhouse gas concentrations b.air pollutant concentrations (such as industrial sulfates) c.changes in land use (e.g. conversion of forest to cropland). These are then used by climate models to predict future...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...economic conditions were benign, with inflation and interest rates low and with the major economies experiencing steady economic growth and low unemployment, the risks inherent in this business model – which involved many banks expanding the size of their balance sheets at a fast pace – were not really exposed. Things changed from around 2005/2006 as higher interest...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...economic circumstances and behaviour of cases, and the impact of interventions on subsequent disease rates. The insistence on evidence led to the gradual development of a new academic discipline – epidemiology – the collection, analysis and interpretation of data on the occurrence, distribution, potential causes and control of diseases, disorders, disabilities and...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...Economic factors: including, whether it is cost-effective to develop a vaccine and whether a vaccine would be affordable by those who would benefit most from it. Organisational factors: including, whether the infrastructure and personnel necessary to conduct a vaccination programme exist in a susceptible population. Cultural factors: including, the level of public...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...economic migrants’ to the city. [Described image] Figure 6 Population in Milton Keynes (please note: the age breakdown was missing from the 2001 census data) The South East of England has the second-highest proportion of the population born outside the UK, taking over from the West Midlands during the 1990s. However, it is still below the average for England and Wales....
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...economic, political and psychological organisation – can we properly evaluate the depiction. 2.4.1 Summary Photographs can provide documentary evidence like other sources. Such evidence supports claims and theories in social science. Realist approaches suggest the images bear a strong resemblance to what is depicted. Conventionalist approaches see pictures as sets of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with German 1
Languages

Getting started with German 1

...economic success and advances in science and technology, German has a long-standing reputation as the language of poets and thinkers, die Sprache der Dichter und Denker. The German speaking countries are also a popular tourist destination, offering visitors a great variety of landscapes - from the sandy beaches in the North to the majestic alps in the South, not to forget...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...economic hardship and depopulation in the Highlands and Islands, lack of Gaelic-medium education at school resulted in a dramatic fall in speaker numbers to under a 100 000 in the latter part of the 20th century. As a linguistic and cultural minority in a country increasingly dominated by English, the world’s most powerful language for communication, science and...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs