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Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...mental health issues, or the discretion to provide support – but it does not prescribe what the correct course of action should be in each case. This is a matter for the social worker to decide, using the framework created by the law. Legal rules do not by themselves provide a clear, consistent and comprehensive guide to practice. The missing ingredient is a commitment...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...health and well-being. A lack of nutrition security manifests in malnutrition caused by not eating enough of the right things necessary for an active and healthy life. A nutritious diet consists of macronutrients (carbohydrates, proteins and fats) in certain proportions, and a wide range of micronutrients (vitamins and minerals). But does the current global food...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...health. However, a significant form of adversity experienced by children in many different regions of the world is violence. The form of violence against children varies widely and is hugely disparate. In this free course, Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach, the focus is on three different environments where children...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...Health Service (England and Scotland), Nissan Motoring Manufacturing UK, O2 Germany, Renault and Telefonica. The malware was of a type known as ransomware, which locks the data files of an infected computer using encryption and demands a ransom payment for unlocking them. In the UK, the worst-affected organisation was the National Health Service (NHS): around 50 health...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...mental health in later life. Making the distinction can help if you need to make savings as you usually have more options to cut costs on non-essential spending. Your spending pattern will change in retirement Some spending items are likely to change in retirement – perhaps your mortgage will be paid off by the time you retire? Some travel costs may go down if you have...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...health, education, mining, and gas and electricity. The global value of the agricultural drones dedicated to spraying was estimated at 1.8 billion USD in 2020 and is expected to reach 3.2 million USD by 2031 (Fact.MR, 2021). In this course, you will focus on how to develop business opportunities for the use of drones in different contexts. The examples from the ICAERUS...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...health, mental well-being and gender equality. Finally, the central pillar of degrowth scholarship: Economic democracy. Democratise workplaces. Democratise public services. Democratise the media. We know empirically that when people have democratic control over production, they choose to use resources more wisely, they focus on what is required for human welfare, and they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...mentally impaired by the gas, but overstimulated beyond the reach of words themselves: as Davy himself put it, ‘I have sometimes experienced from nitrous oxide, sensations similar to no others, and they have consequently been indescribable’. James Thompson, one of the volunteers, captured the magnitude of the task precisely: ‘We must either invent new terms to...
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