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What is politics?
Society, Politics & Law

What is politics?

...familial coexistence, prompt us to consider some even broader definitions of politics. The play of children or the interaction of spouses has little to do with states, politicians or political institutions. If you have watched children play, you probably know that the politics of playgrounds does not always involve the peaceful resolution of conflict. It is often about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Lawrence Breen - Earth in Vision

...family in a location for a period of time.’ That person would then go off and film enough, if they could, of a particular animal or a location. From that they’d come back after three years with a whole bunch of stuff and then they’d make these three beautiful, pristine, one-hours about this location. Inevitably they would also make a human environmental story,...
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Video 20 mins
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...family seems to be coping well with having a mother who goes out to work. Akaash tells his friends that his mother is a teacher as well as a mum and Rohit is now an expert with the microwave! I do have to admit that I've always liked Longheath School the best and that's been one of my most regular schools. Mrs Jackson has done a superb job since they had an awful Ofsted...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...trees (which did not carry Chinese associations), and although the tops of the pillars in the Music Room Gallery look like the sort of Chinese umbrellas carried over high officials in imperial China, snakes rather than dragons curl round the columns. In the Saloon, the tops of the mirrors are unmistakably Mogul-inspired in their swelling forms. The mantelpiece and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...family for a loan of £10 Asking a member of your family for a loan of £5000 Making a house-to-house collection for a national charity Making a house-to-house collection for a local hospital Asking your immediate colleagues to donate to the leaving present of a popular subordinate Asking a local business to contribute to the purchase of a minibus for your child's school...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...family discovered the existence and use of these cells many years later, it led to a number of legal battles about the use of the cells in commercial and patented processes...Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work: 2.1 What are the most important ethical rules? - Ethical rules and principles are designed to ‘protect the dignity, rights and welfare of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...trees’. Systems thinking is precisely about changing the focus of attention to the wood, so that you can see the trees in their context. Understanding the woodland gives new and powerful insights about the trees. Such insights are completely inaccessible if one concentrates on the individual trees. Figure 3 illustrates this sort of shift of attention vividly. [Figure 3]...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...tree-felling dispute in Nanjing where citizen participation actually distracted public opposition to the tree-felling possibly because citizens held a diverse array of views as to why trees should be saved. Central government has also tried to punish polluting companies by banning them from listing on the stock market, suspending their operations or shutting them...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs