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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...education and library bodies. Under Section 75, public authorities are required to have due regard for the need to promote equality of opportunity between: persons of different religious beliefs, political opinions, racial groups, ages, marital status or sexual orientation men and women generally persons with a disability and persons without persons with dependants and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...education, defence and capital investment, for example, in railways. This residue, which arguably can’t be allocated to households, amounts to 10% to 20% of the total UK carbon footprint. This means that consumption decisions by individuals and households are responsible for creating or triggering 80% to 90% of the UK’s carbon footprint (Barrett et al., 2011). This...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...education, of the rise of a young man from his rural roots towards metropolitan sophistication, then it also appears to undermine this very familiar Victorian tale. As Kate Flint says in the introduction (p.xvii), Pip's Bildungsroman is the ‘antithesis’ of those well-known and widely read contemporary chronicles of humble perseverance, such as Samuel Smiles's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...educational practice, as Touchstone comically riffs on the syllogism, the standard method of argumentation used in classical logic: because Corin hasn’t been at court, he has never seen good manners, so it follows that ‘thy manners must be wicked, and wickedness is sin, and sin is damnation’. This sounds plausible enough, yet as Corin puts it in a balanced sentence...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...education, and to participate freely in cultural life. Article 28 specifies a right to a social and international order in which these rights and freedoms can be fully realised, while Article 29 commands a duty on the part of the rights holder to the community in which the development of his [sic] personality is possible. (Source: United Nations, 1948) As you can see,...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...education and social services, barely existed. Today, along with defence, these are the largest areas of state policy and provision, even after privatisations (the transfer of state bodies and functions to the private sector) and the rise of the market principle from the mid 1980s across Western and a number of other democracies. The economic and social role of the state...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...educational qualifications. However, most of your learning is likely to be much more informal and drawn from your work and life experiences. This learning depends on your ability to reflect on and draw learning from these experiences (this is often referred to as experiential learning). For some, reflection is quite a natural process but for most of us it is a skill that...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...educational context of advanced scribal training. Early Mesopotamian culture had seen the development of specialised occupations, as a part of the newly-developing and highly-complex urban structuring of the community, and the profession of scribe was central to the running of economic, bureaucratic and other aspects of the state. There were special institutions, schools,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs