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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...economic status On the other hand, factors that make people want to take part include: A desire to serve the community, change things and/or make a difference Personal invitation to become involved Practical or rational reasons (for instance, personal benefit) Positive experiences of participation The existence of activist cultures and social capital Local leadership...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...economic background purely on the basis of my accent (or perceived lack of local accent) and saw me as ‘middle-class’ which was not how I saw myself. Since then, I have taught in various primary schools, mainly in Birmingham, where I am aware of my responsibilities of being a language role model, particularly where pupils are new (or relatively new) to English. Though...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The metagenomics revolution: an introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

The metagenomics revolution: an introduction

...economic, or societal impacts. The researchers also detected Le Dantec virus, which was not seen in Uganda since 1969. Why was metagenomic sequencing useful in this study? Since metagenomic sequencing is an agnostic method, it can detect unexpected, rare, and emerging viruses that routine tests had missed. What is the public health importance of finding viruses such as...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...economics tend to focus on relationships between groups of people. This is not a hard and fast distinction, for example there is a branch of psychology called social psychology. This week you will: explore how social science sees families and relationships revisit the cycle of enquiry discuss how the role of women has changed learn about the concept of division of labour...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and ran from 2004 until 2008. Its aim was to increase understanding of formal and informal learning. The project involved in-depth interviews with 117 adults aged between 25 and 85 years. The project took a biographical approach by asking adults to narrate their lifetime learning and work experiences. One of the findings is that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War
History & The Arts

Expert opinion: Origins of the First World War

...economic terms and trade terms within 10 or 15 years. You have the foreign secretary, Gottlieb von Jagow, spending a whole night in tears confessing that he’d made a terrible mistake by supporting this policy; you’ve got Prince Lichnowsky, the German ambassador, who’s the only one in the German leadership who knows what’s going on, who actually tries to try to...
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Why maps are made
Society, Politics & Law

Why maps are made

...economic life in the form of cartoons, using humour to make a serious point (see Map 4 below). [Map 4] Map 4 America's world: cover illustration from The Economist, 23–29 October, 1990 Another example using humour can be seen in Map 5 (below). In England, the Doncaster and District Development Council published Ye Newe Map of Britain [see Map 5], as a way of drawing...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...economic growth. And you could say that. And it's like, most people think, yeah, that kind of makes sense. But now it's so obvious that that model will kill the planet. It's like, you can't get away with that anymore. We just have to do it in the right way. We don't put it off anymore. We've kind of put love and caring and religious values to one side. They're a matter of...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr