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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...changes in income levels or other financial variables over time, it’s important to know whether figures are in ‘real terms’. Figures that are expressed in ‘real terms’ have been adjusted to take inflation into account, so that we can compare like with like. Let’s look at inflation in a bit more detail. Inflation refers to a sustained increase over time in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...changing world, social scientific study examines how we produce things, communicate, govern ourselves and understand our environments, and how to solve the problems we face in the organisation of social relations and processes. This free course, The social in social science, provides a basic overview of how social science contains deeply embedded cultural assumptions, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...changes in the person you care for; feeling anxious about what will happen if there is a change in your own circumstances (e.g. if you become ill or when you die); being worried about starting discussions about future care with the person you care for because it might be too difficult to understand and/or might upset them; or struggling with planning for a move to living...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...change in occupational and social practices requires continual relearning and new learning for most adults, including those with higher education. Detailed knowledge in many disciplines has a very limited 'shelf life' and thus it is much more important to leave initial and higher education equipped with the ability to learn new knowledge and skills when required. A recent...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...change the game by enabling policymakers to make real-time decisions,” said Selamawit Desta, program officer of PMA2020 at Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health located at the US-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, during the meeting in Kenya on 27 June. The meeting involving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the...
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Article 5 mins
When should you use a stacked area chart?
Science, Maths & Technology

When should you use a stacked area chart?

...change in market share, in percent, of three companies that are the only manufacturers of a particular device. We’ll call the companies Orange, Green, and Blue and use those colors in our charts. Let’s look at this chart. [Stacked Chart article embed images ] Obviously, Orange started out dominating the market, but Blue expanded rapidly and took over. But here’s the...
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Article 5 mins
Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?
Society, Politics & Law

Would Donald Trump's wall work to reduce migration from Mexico?

...changed where migrants crossed into the US, but not whether they did. More migrants were apprehended, but this simply increased the number of times they had to try to get across. It didn’t slow the flow. Border enforcement did, though, make crossing more expensive and more dangerous, which meant that migrants that made it to the US were less likely to leave. Massey and...
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Article 5 mins
How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...changes in vegetation, and in the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed in different areas of a small city in El Cerrado the commune Aguas de Santa Barbara. They confirmed that a policy banning human-caused fires between 1986 and 2015 encouraged the growth of denser forest. This led to an increase, by 1.2 tons, of the carbon stored in both vegetation and soil in those areas...
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Article 5 mins