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Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...central and local government, and trade associations and trade unions. You can now go to Week 4...Week 3: What else do you need to know about your sector?: References - Oxford Dictionaries (2021) Supply chain [Online]. Available at https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/ definition/ supply_chain (Accessed 17 August 2021). Oxford Dictionaries (2021) Unique selling point...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...central to this relationship. A mentor’s help may include: encouraging you to talk through your options, helping you to organise your thoughts and reach sensible conclusions and decisions helping you to identify and articulate your career goals and then, by prompting you to take action, assisting you to move towards these goals sharing their own experiences and telling...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...central discovery of neuroscience is that the brain continues to develop its ‘wiring diagram’ well into a person’s twenties at least. The frontal lobes, regions critical to high-level cognitive skills such as judgement, multitasking, executive control and emotional regulation, are the last to develop fully. It might be useful to revisit those suggestions again and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...central heating upgraded they decided to go for it. Insulation is key in any eco-renovation. Mark and Alice noticed the biggest change when they had the cavity walls filled with mineral fibre. They put sheep’s wool insulation in the loft, 100 mm on top of the 70 mm of fibreglass, and insulated the walls and ceiling of the internal garage to stop heat leaking into the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...central banks of many of the world’s major economies taking emergency action to rescue their banking systems. This typically involved providing funding to deal with the liquidity crisis and injecting capital into the banks to accommodate the credit losses that the banks were incurring in their lending. This ‘bail-out’ (financial rescue) of the banks – although...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...central to what you're listening to. So continue like this, moving gradually from the gist-- just general listening-- to looking up the odd word here or there to start to understand what you're listening to. And as you do this, you move from a position of not understanding anything to gradually understanding quite a lot of what you are listening to. And it all comes down...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...central to the control and development of immune responses. The principle subgroups are cytotoxic T cells (Tc) and T helper cells (Th)...Week 2: How the immune system combats viral infection: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Professor David Male of the Open University. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...central in humankind’s fight against infectious disease, and is characterised by systematic observation, measurement, experiment, and the formulation, testing and modification of hypotheses. Early examples of the use of the scientific method include John Snow’s experiment of removing the handle from the Broad Street pump, which demonstrated that cholera was...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs