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Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...business. However, law is influenced by a wide range of political, social, economic and cultural factors, and the moral climate of society is only one of these factors. In practice, many laws have a bureaucratic, administrative and technical function. They operate as an essential part of a complex modern society and have little or no connection with morality. Moral values...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
IT: device to device communication
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: device to device communication

...busy sales office. The office might use a dedicated computer (a print server) to handle the data flows between the printer and the users' computers. What happens when the printer or print server breaks down, when the network breaks down or becomes so congested that it can no longer cope with the volume of data being transmitted? Perhaps we need two or more printers, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Art in Renaissance Venice
History & The Arts

Art in Renaissance Venice

...business’, people who ‘differ among themselves in appearance, in customs and in languages’. 8 This characteristic is frequently attributed to Venice’s particular geographical and historical situation: a series of offshore islands in the far north-east of Italy, at the head of the Adriatic, which conferred on Venice a distinctive relation to some of the core values...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...business-as-usual' scenario), the global mean surface temperature will rise by between 1.1 °C and 6.4 °C over the next 100 years or so. Increased surface temperatures are likely to have a variety of effects. One major effect would be on sea levels: increases in global temperature are likely to be accompanied by a rise in global sea level, because of thermal expansion of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...business letters, they lose their ‘ghosts’ – the rich aura that has grown about them from the start, and grows infinitesimally richer every time they are spoken. They lose more; they lose their ‘kernel’, the sheer sensuous relish of utterance… We are in danger of contenting ourselves with husks. For example, nowadays we say ‘it rains’. The old Orkneymen...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...business, and almost as soon as he was of age he was elected MP for Hull, in September 1780. In 1784 he became MP for the county of Yorkshire, an immense and populous constituency, which gave him an important power base. [Figure 1] Figure 1 John Rising, William Wilberforce, oil on canvas, 220 × 130 cm., Wilberforce House, Hull City Museums and Art Galleries. Photo:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...businesses, in the community, in people’s homes, in call centres such as 111, in Government and in education. Section 2 of this course explores these different work roles a little further. Select the answer for Question 1b here In the UK, what percentage of nurses are men? Do you think it is around: 5% 10% 20% 25% a. 5% b. 10% c. 20% d. 25% The correct answer is b....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...busy with the day-to-day business of caring for the children in your setting, that there is no time set aside to make contacts with other professionals or to have informal discussions. As a result, you may only have ‘snatched time’ to develop relationships with your colleagues. Just as we noted when thinking about working with parents and carers, time is a key factor,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs