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Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...system and those in different systems extracting and interpreting information from tables, diagrams, charts and graphs collecting and recording discrete data, and organising and representing information in different ways finding the mean, median and range of a group of numbers. Finding the mean from grouped data using data to assess the likelihood of an outcome and...
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Free course 48 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...systems move through, or heating systems fail. Moving around is not necessarily any better, and can expose us to even wider ranges of temperature. An airliner may leave the ground where the temperature is in the high twenties Celsius and climb within minutes to a height where the outside temperature is minus fifty. It turns out that almost all materials properties change...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...system. […] This means that dealing with children’s literature involves responsibility, because what may at first sight seem like trivial or ephemeral texts are in fact immensely powerful. They have been read by millions upon millions of people at the period in their lives when they are most susceptible to new ideas. It is inconceivable that these texts have not...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate
Society, Politics & Law

The US Presedential Election 2016: The first GOP debate

...system will likely ring dubious to many primary voters. Finally, his flippant response to Megyn Kelly’s question about his record on gender sensitivity will likely haunt his political and post-political career. Carly Fiorina received a lot of positive buzz after the underdog debate, and as one of the “outsider candidates,” she provides a stark contrast to Donald...
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Article 5 mins
52 things you never knew about OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

52 things you never knew about OpenLearn

...System in our The Magic of Meteorites hub. …And finally, for those of you with a dirty mind, we'll let you know our free course with the most hilarious title. Who says toilet humour isn’t funny?! May we introduce you to Analysing Skid Marks? Unfortunately this course was deleted on 11th January 2019 but the content still lives on in part (like one of Voldemort's...
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Article 5 mins
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...system that assigns scores to test and other assessment outcomes; for example, how the candidate would fit with the team. By using multiple indicators, such as interviews, personality and ability tests, and assessment centres, selection processes create a composite picture of candidates. These can then be compared, so that the candidate with the highest overall...
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Article 10 mins
The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982
Society, Politics & Law

The Plessey Factory Occupation, Bathgate, 1982

...system to end the dispute. In Scots Law, a company would require an interdict served to every member of an occupation to prevent the continuation of their ‘unlawful’ behaviour. The cumbersome nature of this process meant that it had not been used by any organisation to force an end to an occupation. However, in 1982 there were two cases of an interdict being sought...
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Article 10 mins
Scoring the Shoreline
History & The Arts

Scoring the Shoreline

...system in danger of inundation, transformation and loss. It is a place of work, a giver and taker of lives and livelihoods. At the same time, it is a zone of leisure and pleasure, innocent pastimes, robust healthy exercise, over-indulgence and covert assignations. In each of these ways and more the sounds of the seaside are deeply engrained in our cultural consciousness....
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Article 15 mins