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Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...family, your time management and multi-tasking skills are likely to be well developed. Now you have a better idea of the range of work experience opportunities that are valued by employers, in the next section you’ll pause to review your own experiences so far and consider what you have gained from them...Week 1: What is an internship or work experience opportunity?: 3...
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...trees, nearby buildings, accumulation of dirt etc the efficiency of the inverter, and any losses that occur in the wiring between the PV system and the final consumer. The European Union’s Joint Research Centre at Ispra, Italy, has produced PVGIS (PV Geographical Information System), an online tool giving solar radiation data and estimated PV outputs for Europe, Africa...
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...family, your community or society? What are the roles of different types of organisation within the voluntary sector? The concept of role is key to understanding organisations. Many of the topics covered in this course are issues or activities that are relevant to other areas of life beyond a job or formal volunteering. You may have attended a public meeting and asked a...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...families more broadly, both at the level of policy coming from Westminster and within policy emanating from devolved governments in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which increasingly had (and continue to have) legislative power in areas relating to work with young people. Key policy drivers in partnership working in the field of work with young people in these years...
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...family. An important issue here is 'source credibility', i.e. the extent to which a source is perceived as having knowledge, skill or experience relevant to a communications topic and can be trusted to give an unbiased opinion or present objective information on the issue (Belch and Belch, 2009). Consistency of messages Given the many potential sources of communication,...
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...families and friends. They could be doctors, actors, teachers, bookkeepers, bankers, agents, farmers, actuaries, philosophers. But they did not have the legal standing of free people: the capacity to have rights in law, to own property, to make contracts, marriages and wills, to sue and be sued in the civil courts. (Allain, 2012, p. 13) Slavery continued in the Middle...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
An introduction to floodplain meadows
Nature & Environment

An introduction to floodplain meadows

...family: great burnet, see Figure 2); the other by a member of the buttercup family: marsh marigold (see Figure 3). [Described image] Figure 2 Great burnet (Sanguisorba-officinalis) [Described image] Figure 3 Marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) With so many species growing in close proximity to one another, competition for resources (light, water, nutrients) is intense....
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...family life, home and correspondence 9 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion 10 Freedom to receive and impart ideas and information 11 Freedom of association 12 Right to marry and found a family 13 Right to an effective remedy 14 Right to enjoy other Convention rights without discrimination Protocol 1 Article 1* Right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions Protocol 1...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs