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Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...physical analogy illustrates several important facts about weighted means. It does not matter whether the weights are 5 kg and 8 kg or 5 tonnes and 8 tonnes; the point of balance will be in the same place. It will also remain in the same place if we use weights of 10 kg and 16 kg or 40 kg and 64 kg – it is only the relative sizes (i.e. the ratio) of the weights that...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...physical adjustments to spaces. Walking in someone else’s shoes or seeing the world through someone else’s lens is a really important thing. So I think the adjustments really come from that conversation at the front. What we do ask for is access riders. And we’ll explain to people what that means. It might be as simple as a phone call or a sentence, or it might be...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Herodotus and the invention of history
History & The Arts

Herodotus and the invention of history

...physical objects which were produced in the ancient world. Figures 13 and 14 below are images of two pieces of material culture associated with Croesus. These pre-date Herodotus’ Histories, and can therefore help us to fill out the picture Herodotus’ contemporary reader might indeed have known. Interpreting visual sources like these requires analytical skills which...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...physical environments are also barely understood, which makes understanding environmental change even more difficult. The problems which have emerged, from global warming and ozone depletion to acid rain pollution, have led many social scientists to forge new interdisciplinary links and to reassess the role of the natural sciences in contributing to the study of...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...physical entity such as a machine or a body, itself made up of many parts. [Described image] Figure 5: Components...Introducing global development: 8 Framework for a global development mindset - Thinking systemically requires a both/and mindset. Working with a complex situation requires looking at individual parts of the whole – you cannot deal with everything, so you...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...physically; take your lunch break, take your holidays, take your time off in lieu, develop good organisational skills, become a team player, use the support around you. I also like the saying that ‘big girls don’t cry’. Well, we do, and it’s okay to cry in supervision. It’s okay to cry about some of the stories we hear. To me, being open to those feelings...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...physically closely to each other, while not being affiliated to the same institution. This brings about a sense of collaboration or sharing (Butcher, 2018), for instance, through bringing about fruitful conversations between workers from different backgrounds. Sharing the same space should create the potential for more relations and innovative ideas to emerge through...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social science and participation
Society, Politics & Law

Social science and participation

...physical efficiency. JONATHAN BRADSHAW This is Rowntree's first study of poverty in York, published in 1901. And it's remarkable work. He interviewed every working class household in York, 33,000 households. We can see on this map where the poor were concentrated. And he was very preoccupied with the relationship between poverty and drinking. And so he has marked on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs