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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...social policy and housing, University of Stirling The spending review promises to unveil “the biggest affordable housebuilding programme since the 1970s with a particular focus on the creation of 400,000 "affordable homes” by 2020. As a useful comparison, research in Scotland indicates the need for a minimum of 12,000 of these over the next five years. But there is a...
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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...social life before work, have little concern about progressing your career and might be seen as ‘laid-back’. If you have a more central score, you keep a balance between work and leisure. You have some concern about doing well and making progress, but you don’t let work rule your life. Has completing this activity altered the rating you gave to your ‘work–life...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...work, determining how people react to situations, and, more than that, the kind of situations they get themselves into in the first place. This is why personality seems to become stronger as we get older; when we are young, our situation reflects external factors such as the social and family environment we were born into. As we grow older, we are more and more reaping...
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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...social sciences definitive answers are difficult to come by. What politics is and equally, who does it, and where it is done are hotly debated and highly contested. This OpenLearn course will introduce you to some of these debates, and their implications for the study and practice of politics...This free course, What is politics?, introduces you to the world of politics....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...work tasks we are responsible for...To succeed in management you need good interpersonal skills, you need to understand how to deal with other people. This free course, The importance of interpersonal skills, will help you gain an awareness of your own skills and understand that an awareness of the interpersonal skills of others can help us enormously in dealing with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...working. The course would be of interest to teachers, parents and carers, and can be studied on an individual basis or as part of a school-based training session...What do you think being creative means? This free course, Creativity, community and ICT, engages with the debates surrounding the term 'creativity' and explores ways in which ICT creates new opportunities for...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...social structures. Rather they work by creating the change they wish to encounter, building and forging new ways of experiencing social and political life. (2014, p. 2) As with the law, equitable ideas often concern private property and how, for example, it is held (possessed, owned), used and (re)distributed in capitalist societies...Equity – law and idea: 1.1 The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...working in small businesses with limited access to specialists, as well as marketing professionals and those thinking about pursuing a course of study to become a marketing professional...This free course, Understanding your customers, is a short introduction to understanding customers. The course underlines the relevance of understanding customers as individuals, members...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs