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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...paradoxically, introduced several similar products such as diet, cherry and vanilla versions of its standard soft drink. Generally, though, introducing a new product carries greater risk and difficulty and this is exacerbated if it involves new markets or technologies. Finally, the outcomes of attempts to produce revolutionary products that overturn existing thinking and...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...paradoxically, Munster forms can sometimes seem familiar to Scots; for ‘How are you?’, for example, some Scottish Gaelic speakers would say: ‘Cionnas a tha thu?’! Despite the obvious similarities, there are some fairly significant differences between Scottish and Irish Gaelic that allow them to be classified now as sister languages, rather than dialects of the one...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...paradoxes, spitefully, in intentional self-contradictions. He certainly prepares us for the humorous and self–destructive acts to follow, so the disadvantages of this method, that it is not dramatic and that it does not create pictures, are not significant. Appearance Image is not everything, but it does account for a lot. Through how a person looks, you may try to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...paradox is, yes, it’s a mystery, but there is nothing at all mysterious about the product. It’s completely reliable and incredibly addictive. The great poet W.H. Auden said that these books were as addictive as cigarettes or alcohol, two subjects on which Auden was a world-class expert. I want to get inside these books and understand how they work. SPEAKER 1 It’s so...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...paradox has been in simplifying a difficult subject to empower people to manage their emotions. RONNIE O’SULLIVAN There’s been matches when I’ve not wanted to even go out and play. About five minutes before the match my mates have been trying to get me out of bed, and I’m like, I don’t want to face it. And I’d get there, put my shirt and tie on as I’m...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...paradox of precise language where you achieve certainty at the expense of clarity. And you know there’s something about the language as well of law. It’s a kind of, it’s kind of deadening quality. It’s not quite jargon, but it’s the words we use. We have to choose precise words, you see, and we’re not allowed to use words that are colourful or or rhetorical,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...paradoxical, but while you want people to feel able to speak freely, that doesn’t mean ‘anything goes’. It’s important that aggression, bullying and belittling behaviours are acknowledged and dealt with promptly...Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion: 5.7 Cybersecurity for hybrid working - When you were completely office-based, your organisation’s IT team...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...paradox’ [Online]. Available at https://youngfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/The-Wellbeing-and-Resilience-Paradox.pdf Mishra, P. and McDonald, K. (2017) ‘Career Resilience: An integrated review of the empirical literature’, Human Resource Development Review, Vol 16(3), pp. 207-234. [Online] Available at
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs