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Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...writing. You may think that there is a sense of analogy with some aspects of the English common law. Treaty law, on the other hand, relates to those treaties (formal documents) which nations have negotiated and signed with the intention of binding the state to an international agreement to achieve the standards defined within the treaty. For instance, one of the first...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...writings of scholars from ancient Greece and Rome and a new emphasis on the use of observation as the basis of knowledge. This series of developments, called the Renaissance, in turn led to new ideas such as the model of the solar system with the sun at the centre while the planets revolved around it, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). The spread of these new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...writing 3 x 3 we write 3 2 and express this as three to the ‘power’ or ‘order’ of 2.) Brackets are the first term used in BODMAS and should always be used to avoid any possibility of ambiguity or misunderstanding. A better way of writing 12 + 21 x 3 is thus 12 + (21 x 3). This makes it clear which operation should be done first. 12 + (21 x 3) is thus done on the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...writing, fairly recent examples in the United Kingdom include the ‘Horizon IT scandal’ and the crisis of funding for the National Health Service (NHS). The ongoing climate crisis provides a more global example of systemic failure. In all cases, these are not simple, isolated errors but complex failures with social, technical and political dimensions, with multiple and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...writing in the early 1980s, defined engineering as ‘the practice of organising the design and construction of any artifice which transforms the physical world around us to meet some recognised need’ (Rogers, 1983). Rogers was not a software developer, but an engineer specialising in thermodynamics and jet-engine development. Yet his definition captures the essence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...write software that starts up quickly, backs off more slowly or, perhaps, not at all and, once the congestion is clear, ramp up their demand more rapidly than the standard requires, in order to grab a greater share of the communication resources than others. The fair allocation of resources, therefore, depends on adherence to a standard and on self-restraint. In other...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...write, I'm reminded of the ongoing attempt by a group of stalwarts to reconfigure the standard keyboard, originally designed to prevent the letter levers clashing on a manual typewriter, into something more user-friendly for today's computer user. The biggest examples of challenges requiring routine solutions are, literally, physically big. Things that need configuring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...WRITES ‘RSA’ LOGO] KEN ROBINSON: Every country on Earth at the moment is reforming public education. There are two reasons for it. The first of them is economic. People are trying to work out how do we educate our children to take their place in the economies of the twenty-first century. How do we do that given that we can’t anticipate what the economy will look...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs