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Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...et al., 1983) [This cartoon shows three people peering into a box labelled ‘situation’ through a magnifying glass] Figure 2 Choices that can be made about the nature of a situation such as water governance and catchment management situations (adapted from SLIM 2004). For practical purposes it is essential to remember that both the rational and the emotional aspects...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...et al. (2003) candidly admit, that the discipline, if it exists, has an identity crisis. Maybe it is time to identify – for school geography, a subset of the wider discipline – a small number of defining concepts. This is a worthy goal for subject associations such as the Geographical Association (GA) to work for because, without such a list (which has to be short to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...et al, 1989). The underlying principle here being that if, for example, something is taken out of the earth, something else renewable must be substituted as compensation. The extreme of this idea would be not to take anything out of the earth at all, but that would perhaps be a little unrealistic. If there is no decline in natural capital, then the sustainability is seen...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...et al., 2015, p.5) The full College of Policing report outlines in detail the process taken and the conclusions reached. One useful approach for evaluating interventions such as this has been called EMMIE and this is summarised in the table below: Table 1 The EMMIE Model ​Effect ​Impact on crime Whether the evidence suggests the intervention led to an increase,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...et al. (eds)...Managing coastal environments: Acknowledgements - Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Course image: Michael D Beckwith in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. The material...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...motivated him. Owen himself came from relatively humble beginnings. He was the son of a Welsh shopkeeper. The beginnings of factory employment in Britain offered Owen opportunities. He worked in small factories in Manchester and then in 1791 he went to manage the large Drinkwater Mill. Greg Claeys (Royal Holloway College, University of London) One must recall, that when...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...motives which might be natural to Gloucester at that moment, but merely in order, when left alone with Edgar, to enact the later scene of the imaginary leaping from the cliff. Notwithstanding Edgar has just seen his blinded father, and has learnt that his father repents of having banished him, he puts in utterly unnecessary interjections which Shakespeare might know,...
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Defnyddio gwaith gwirfoddol i gamu ymlaen yn y farchnad swyddi
Money & Business

Defnyddio gwaith gwirfoddol i gamu ymlaen yn y farchnad swyddi

...motivated than other candidates.' James Caan, Dragons' Den Nid oes unrhyw amheuaeth y bydd y sgiliau 'meddal' y gallwch eu meithrin wrth wneud eich gwaith gwirfoddol o fudd wrth chwilio am swydd, ond sut y gallwch ddarbwyllo'r cyflogwyr eich bod yn bodloni eu gofynion? unrhyw amheuaeth y bydd y sgiliau 'meddal' y gallwch eu meithrin wrth wneud eich gwaith gwirfoddol o...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs