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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...community. Risk is tied in with accidents so it is vital to understand how accidents arise, how likely they are to occur and how they can be prevented. These subjects are all covered in this course...Risk is something that must be taken into account at all times when practising as an engineer. We accept risk as part of everyday life so there is a need to balance the risks...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...community. Most historians suggest that modernisation began in Europe during the eighteenth century (Cocks, 2007, pp. 27–8), continued throughout the nineteenth and reached maturity in the twentieth. Second, ‘modernity’, which is the experience of modernisation, an articulation of feeling modern or a sense that a break with the past has occurred, which is expressed...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...communities compared with those immediately upstream and the successive reaches downstream. After a certain distance, natural biodegradative processes will break down the pollutants, often returning the river to something like its original condition. Three stages of organic pollution can be defined. When the load is small, there will be little change in the species of...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
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Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...community, and its diverse mix of students with different needs, such as English as a second language, or special educational needs. You also need to be aware of the makeup of your school in terms of things like ethnicity, gender, and prior attainment. Once you've spent some time discovering your school community, it's important to find out about the school's mission...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...communities affected by the hurricane? Legalistic approaches are grounded in the assumptions that the law and criminal justice systems should be used to define crime, determine whether offences have taken place and determine what redress (if any) victims are entitled to (similarly to traditional criminological approaches). It assumes that any government failings can be...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks
History & The Arts

Why the bands played on: Live music in the shadow of the Paris attacks

...La Bataclan the day after the Paris Attacks] Police activity outside the Bataclan the day after the murders When Zoot Sims was asked what playing with Benny Goodman in 1962 Cold War Russia was like, following a tour beset with official and personal aggravations, he was typically sardonic: “Every gig with Benny is like playing in Russia.” Sims could at least afford a...
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Article 5 mins
Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?
Money & Business

Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?

...La Marzocco, an artisan operation based near Florence. As a result of this visibility, it became one of the most highly regarded manufacturers in the world, exporting more than 95% of its machines. Indeed, the global growth in coffee shop culture inspired by Starbucks generated a massive expansion in export earnings throughout the Italian coffee sector. In 1988 Italy...
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Article 5 mins
Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...la carte and the web mapping 'tiles' created by Johan Åhlfeldt for the Pelagios project. No longer do we, as historians of the ancient world, need to rely on Google, though you may want to explore Herodotus in Google Earth! If you do, visit the Hestia webserver, and your application of Google Earth will open with data from the Histories, which will enable you to search...
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Activity 5 mins