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‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...think both about the fact that environmental change always touches down in particular places and at particular moments, and the fact that to understand the full impact of these changes we often need to look further afield. Geographers and Environmental Studies researchers use the concepts of risk and uncertainty to draw attention to the fact that decisions about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Simple Coding - Summary
Digital & Computing

Simple Coding - Summary

...think clearly and rigorously when solving a problem, because the solution has to be described in very small and precise steps that even a machine can understand. Python makes it easy to write the code once we come up with a sufficiently detailed algorithm, but the thinking (still) has to be done by us. Like learning any other skill, only practice makes perfect. We hope...
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Activity 5 mins
Finding a mentor
Money & Business

Finding a mentor

...think about problems you may be facing, and new ideas or ways of working you want to try out. They will usually help by listening to your thoughts and ideas and asking questions to help you think more clearly about them. A mentor can be someone you work with who has experience relevant to your line of work. This is usually not your line manager, unless your employer...
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Article 5 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course, Encouraging book talk in the school library, offers ideas and activities to engage pupils in discussing books. It is aimed at librarians, teaching assistants and other adults working with pupils in school libraries...As adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing ageing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing ageing

...think about this issue by introducing you to some key ideas in studying later life...Everyone is ageing, whatever their current age, and we live in a world where many people are living much longer than previous generations. This is often seen as a problem. But is it? This free course, Introducing ageing, will help you to think about this issue by introducing you to some...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...thinking and behaviour. You will learn about why fictional villains might be attractive to us, in a way that real villains are not. You will also learn about how the relationships we form with fictional characters can influence our psychological engagement with the real world around us. [Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains (Free Course...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The People on the Notes: Adam Smith
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Adam Smith

...think-tank dedicated to the pursuit of economic liberalism bears his name, and Margaret Thatcher famously carried a copy of his book Wealth of Nations with her at all times. Smith is widely celebrated – often by people who haven’t read his works – as a “prophet” of individualism, as the man who foresaw the rise of industrial capitalism and provided the...
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Article 10 mins
Lifecycle of the Car Industry
Money & Business

Lifecycle of the Car Industry

...think that car manufacturers have understood that the car is an important part of our lives so they're interested in two things – using digital technology to augment the cars, the products themselves, with new functionality for the cars; and also a way to deliver services to people. As we're going places we may want to just generally carry out other things that we do...
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Article 10 mins