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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...economic and nutritional benefits to the UK, and of the health risks involved (which are believed to be very small). However, these models did not include any consideration of the potential effects of GM crops, from which the foods would be produced, on the wildlife of farmland. This omission has been one major contributor to the acrimony of the debate, and the rejection...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...economic and technology constraints, tradeoffs and aesthetic concerns. In Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture, Fowler (2002) states: ‘Architecture’ is a term that lots of people try to define, with little agreement. There are two common elements: One is the highest-level breakdown of a system into its parts; the other, decisions that are hard to change. In...
Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...economical with the truth in a debrief, and someone doing something dangerous, and they know that something they're doing dangerous. They can get away with it. They might end up killing someone. I think probably, finally, is I'd like to think I always go back to the decisions that I made, and find out whether they were the right decisions in the end. So always looking for...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...economic impacts of these technologies? Discussion The work has led to scientists developing methods to: Detect prostate cancer by ‘smell’, with the potential to perform more accurate diagnoses, thereby saving lives and expenditure in the National Health Service (NHS). Patients, carers and medical professionals, in particular, could benefit from the application of...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Childhood in the digital age
Education & Development

Childhood in the digital age

...economic virtual activities. These opportunities offer an extension to their everyday lives. The avatar body can be customised in a practically infinite number of ways ranging through height, weight, frame and figure, skin colour, eye colour, facial structure and gender, to fantasy animal characters. Activity 3 Read the extract Playing with Pixels: Youth, Identity, and...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...economics. As well as being an explorer, Mungo Park, who had qualified as a surgeon, had a keen interest in natural history and in the system of the Swedish naturalist Carl von Linnaeus (1707–78) for the classification of plants. It was common to speculate on connections between science and other subjects such as human nature, religion and morality. There were many...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...economic and political priorities of the times. Policy responses in 2012 to the needs of children separated from their families and travelling alone to the UK as refugees or asylum seekers is one example of this. There is an inherent tension between the laws and policies relating to immigration and our expectations of policy and practices created to protect children. The...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...economic well-being. Every Child Matters informed the Children Act of 2004 which led to the reform of children and young people’s services in England, with an emphasis on promoting cooperation between agencies in order to improve outcomes for children and young people (if you are interested in reading more about these policy developments, see the Every Child Matters...