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The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...De-fence?’ What? This fence? Yeah, well. Right. So my cabinet is a bit like my gang. I’m the leader of that gang. I like that, it’s good. I’ll be Prime Minister, then. Finally, I will have ultimate power. Ah, but will you? Yes. Ah, but will you though? Yeah. But will you? Yes. No. Because you’re forgetting about: Parliament. Now, one of its most important roles...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...concept of a canon of artistic masterpieces first developed in literature and was then applied to music. The musical canon developed in the nineteenth century – a time when women had very few rights and were largely excluded from public life – and focused exclusively on male composers, such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky and...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The meaning of crime
Society, Politics & Law

The meaning of crime

...concept – moral panic – to gauge the meaning of our response to the crime problem...The meaning of crime: 3.2 Counting the crime problem - What kind of evidence would support the claims of the common-sense narrative? Where would it come from and where would you find it? Most social scientists would start with the people who actually spend their time counting these...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...concept has become very influential in both human behavioural ecology and evolutionary psychology. However, the concept also has its critics because it is very difficult to get unambiguous evidence about exactly what kind of environment our EAA might have been. Prentice and Jebb (2003) suggest that modern day subsistence farmers in Gambia may provide a good model for the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...concept of ‘complementary skills’. A key difference between a group and a team is that team members work together to achieve the goal. Completing the task or goal would not have been possible alone for it needs skills that are shared across the team. The team is ‘mutually accountable’. While a group may use the same resources to meet their individual goals, it is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...concept at all, it's a Buddhist concept, right? 'Cause essentially the Pope suggested that we should extend communion to animals and that means that they have a soul and therefore the same rights and duties as we do. And that is quite a revolution in Catholic learning. RH: And you have some sympathy with that, personally? RT: I do have sympathy with that as a person, yes....
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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...concept of ACEs has proven itself to be very useful in terms of understanding subsequent behaviours, it should not be used as a way of assuming or predicting future challenges or anti-social behaviours. As Bateson and colleagues (2020) emphasise: Assessing risk of maltreating a child or committing a criminal offence is a complex issue thwarted with methodological...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...concept of probability could also be used to consider how the gambling industry functions and the interplay between odds and subjective probabilities, but this will not be covered in this course. In business scenarios, it is not often that you can rely on the first approach of deriving a number from first principles of probability only. More often, you have to arrive at a...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs