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Sustainable Scotland
Nature & Environment

Sustainable Scotland

...writes about the effects that this collapse had on local authorities in the UK, while Branigan (2009) presents a more general overview of the effects of global economic changes on recycling. Activity 7 Think about the following issues: 1 The links between local environmental projects like GREAN (Golspie Recycling and Environmental Action Network, or any projects you are...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...write-offs after it quit the rail maintenance business were compounded by problems at its accommodation services division. […] The company said it had suffered ‘a substantial outflow of cash’ as it paid debts accumulated from its exit of rail maintenance in 2003 and the lower construction volumes in accommodation services. […] Chief executive Kevin Hyde said,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...writing the ratio of prices in pounds sterling to prices in euros is two to three (2 : 3). What is the equivalent price in pounds for a coat costing 150 euros? Answer 3 euros are equivalent to 2 pounds. This means that So price in pounds = 2/3 × price in euros = 2/3 × 150 = 100 The equivalent price of the coat is £100...Ratio, proportion and percentages: 1.2.1 Try some...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...writing in the 1960s and 1970s. ‘Afford’ means ‘make possible’ and it can be helpful to think about the relationship between the built or physical environment and people’s lives. Complete Activity 5 to learn more about this idea. Activity 5: Affordances of water Timing: 15 minutes [Photograph of a green grass field.] Think of a body of water such as the one...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...writing, cross-legged, the papyrus on their knees, the pen-box clutched in their arm. It's almost the everyday texture of life that comes out of these paintings so effectively. © The Open University and its licensor...Week 4 Nebamun the man and his tomb: 3.1 A hierarchical society - Egyptian society, like its most famous monuments (and like virtually all pre-modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...writing letters to each other, often without having met) both existed long before the advent of the internet. Both were made possible by innovations that were ground breaking in their day. Compare also the impact of the introduction of running water, electric lighting and indoor plumbing with some more recent ‘innovations’. As Chakrabortty (2012) comments, ‘You...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...writing (2003), giving rise to the term ‘drive-by hacking’, although many instances have occurred quite simply because basic security features have not been activated. As a result, all the attacks on the LAN that I have described so far can be performed by someone who does not even have physical access to the site, but could be on the street nearby, for example in a...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...writing MMR: 1+1+1 3 on a window – echoing memorable scenes from the film Beautiful Mind in which Russell Crowe, playing mathematician John Nash, covers his windows with mathematical equations. Activity 4 What do you think? Was Channel Five irresponsible to dramatise the MMR–autism controversy, lending credibility to a scientifically discredited viewpoint? Or is it...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs