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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...variables in development intervention diagnose strengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with development intervention...Diagramming for development 2: Exploring interrelationships: 1 Case study: the Working for Water Programme - Before we look at the diagrams, take a moment to read this case study. You will be referring to it throughout this unit, so...

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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs

Society, Politics & Law

How does Coronation Street bring politics home?

...class British family struggling through World War II. It was designed to promote US participation in the war by encouraging empathy with the British public. The Archers, similarly, was designed with political objectives in mind. Produced by the BBC in association with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the programme provided farming tips and information...

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Article 5 mins

Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling and estimation

...variables. Section 2 looks at one particular probability model for discrete data, the binomial distribution. Section 3 investigates how data can be used to estimate the probability of success in a single Bernoulli trial and introduces maximum likelihood estimation...This free course is concerned with modelling and estimation and looks in particular at the binomial...

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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs

History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...class – but many of Europe’s most iconic sausages were probably devised to please the palates of the rich. In the 16th century, salamis, capicolli pork sausages and other preserved meats were luxuries enjoyed by city dwellers, which also provided a bit of income for farmers. And so it is that sausages have also provoked anxiety about ethnicity, class and political...

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Article 5 mins

Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...class/race see Carter and Weiner, 2013; for UK achievement gaps related to race/ethnicity see Stevens, 2007, for gender, ethnicity and social class see Strand, 2014) and disproportionate numbers of Black male students disciplined and excluded from school (for US see Skiba et al., 2002; Monroe, 2005; Ritter and Anderson, 2018; for UK see Parsons, 2008; Demie, 2019). Much...

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Article 10 mins

Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...variable cost. However, in the agricultural sector it is not unusual to class labour as a fixed cost, such as in dairy production. Typically in dairy production, employee costs are considered fixed, because labour use is not directly related to the quantity of output. The number of employees on a farm are often low and work needs to be done to run the dairy farm, for...

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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs

History & The Arts

Migration goes both ways: How Brits changed the world

...class and working class backgrounds. While middle class migrants were often active in these kinds of groups – pursuing philanthropy because they believed in giving back – working class migrants were often unable to cover the required membership fees. What they were looking for was a way to help themselves. As a result, migrants from different class backgrounds...

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Article 5 mins

Society, Politics & Law

London housing protests echo Glasgow rent strikes of 100 years ago

...class residents by Tory/Lib Dem coaliton policy. Local tenants' organisations and protest groups have also been formed to co-ordinate discontent. Meanwhile, Corbyn’s Labour is proposing the biggest social-housing programme since the 1970s. This is all exactly 100 years after the Glasgow rent strikes of 1915, another period that lacked affordable and decent rental...

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Article 15 mins

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Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships