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Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...classes’ available to personal investors. We’ll look first at the different types of savings accounts, before moving on to look at bonds and shares. We’ll then focus on the way that personal investments can be made in various types of investment funds and how these funds enable even small amounts of money to be spread over a range of individual investments. We’ll...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...de Football Association, or FIFA as it is more commonly known, itself has experienced significant controversy relating to the internal politics (or the small ‘p’ politics) of the organisation. However, before you delve into FIFA, take a moment to explore what is meant by ‘political’ in this course. Activity 1 Identifying political themes relating to this course...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of...
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Audio 5 mins
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...class and at mealtimes or when drawing and writing. Some are still not potty trained although most children are developmentally ready for potty training between the ages of 2 and 3 years old. Children can often use handheld screen devices with confidence. But we find now that their hands lack the muscle strength to hold a pencil, use cutlery, and manage scissors. Every...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...class C). Energy efficiency improved markedly after 1998 to meet these standards leading to the reductions in electricity use by cold appliances seen in Figure 6. [Figure 7] Figure 7 Electricity consumption in cold appliances, business-as-usual scenario, UK, 1970–2020. So far, so promising. There is considerable scope, however, for further energy savings if consumers...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...class hatred and the blood-bath of the twentieth. Cultural unity is thus counterposed not just to diversity or disunity but to extremes of conflict on a military and class base. After 1945, though, a new European consensus began to emerge in response to the awareness of a common Soviet threat and American encouragement of European unity, in reaction to ‘the destructive...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Algorithmic Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Algorithmic Design

...class at RISD, Intro to Programming. And so she said, why don’t we use this tool? And I thought, what could go wrong with that. So it was very in progress. You know, that was like the alpha, alpha, alpha. And we just kind of went in there and wrote on the whiteboard, OK, instal Sublime. Go here. And we didn’t have all these things like books to teach with or online...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring depression

...class thing, and I went to look at how it operated in a variety of other contexts. And one of the things I was most interested in was depression among the indigent, and so I went out to try to look at what was being done for poor people with depression. And what I discovered is that poor people are mostly not being treated for depression. Depression is the result of a...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs