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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...education. You will look at the different sources of information university students normally read. University readings can be long and approaching them can be daunting. You will consider some of the challenges students sometimes face when approaching these readings and learn an active reading method which allows you to break a reading task in to small manageable steps....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...De Quincey shed a backward gleam upon his native place, which can still show the house where he was probably born and the grammar-school he certainly ran away from. In my forgetfulness, or my ignorance, that Manchester was the mother of this tricksy master-spirit of English prose, who was an idol of my youth, I failed to visit either house. The renown of Cobden and of...
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Article 10 mins
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...de facto’ policy. Examples where this has happened can be found in planning processes where precedents set are taken into account when appeals are made regarding granting planning permission. De facto policy also applies in some countries regarding prosecution of small scale polluters, where it is not practical to implement environmental legislation in a literal sense...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...education, where there isn't a properly motivated workforce, you are clearly going to have a workforce there that can't compete properly, can't make the best use of the opportunities that exist in a developed country. And instead of course they have to compete directly by falling wages. Digby Anderson You were asked particularly about international comparisons. Are there...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Introducing philosophy
History & The Arts

Introducing philosophy

...education, which is in her long-term interest. As you will see when you read Warburton's book, Berlin thinks that both concepts of freedom are important, but he also warns that they can be abused. If negative freedom is not restricted, then the strong will have a licence to exploit the weak. (For example, most people would accept that the state should place restrictions...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...education. [Described image] Figure 2 A steelworks It is useful to distinguish these broad economic sectors as we can see that there will be important differences between a business operating in the primary sector and one that provides a service. Nonetheless, it would also seem obvious that there may be big differences between businesses within the same broad economic...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...education campaigns; to look for trends in various conditions. Computerised patient information makes the collation of such statistics much easier. They may also find that planning for staff use within the practice is easier. Computer system retailers/maintainers. Clearly they have benefits in selling their products and services in the first place. However, it is often...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...de Tocqueville put it, the idea of rights ‘removes from any request its supplicant character, and places the one who claims it on the same level as the one who grants it’. Rights: a definition A right is a justifiable entitlement to something (the object of the right), by virtue of the possession of a relevant attribute, against an agent or agents with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs