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Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...careful refinements or modifications made to existing services or processes. These small changes can help them evolve and make them ‘better’ through an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary approach to innovation. As it involves the slow and gradual refinement of what already exists and is known, incremental innovation can often be regarded as a safer option. In...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...careful experiments that can be checked by repeating them. As time goes on, scientific knowledge steadily progresses. Reflection point What views of the nature science do you hold? Do you agree with the popular view given by Reiss? Is science context- and culture-free? Or is scientific knowledge dependent on its cultural and social location? Are you an inductivist or a...
Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...careful balance of costs, using the available supply of high volume components at lower cost combined with the higher cost of special components made by the company specifically for their product. Getting this balance right is one of the keys to a successful design and designers must keep this in mind constantly as they develop a product...Introducing engineering: 2.6 The...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...care is needed in ascribing a perspective to a group as there is likely to be variation within it). Individuals might in that case come from different geographical locations. The group might be predominantly ‘local’ but the organisation ‘regional’ or ‘national’. However, diagrams can be useful in different ways and Uphoff’s diagram is a valuable prompt for...
Beginners’ German: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ German: food and drink

...adults who are not very close friends or relatives of yours) du you (when talking to a close friend, a relative or a child) ihr you (when talking to two or more close friends, relatives or children) er he sie they sie she es it Note that sie with a small ‘s’ means ‘she’ and also ‘they’. Sie with a capital ‘S’ means ‘you’. There are several ways of...
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...adult gained about my own culture and heritage, the more this question came up. Why was it important to silence our heritage to make it disappear? The more I travelled around the world and became acquainted with other cultures, I realised that this had not only happened in Sápmi, but that this has happened all over the world. To my great joy, I eventually discovered that...
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...care levy, disposable plastic tax and tourism tax. [This is a screenshot of some financial information from the Welsh Government. It shows areas where, on the website, information boxes can be revealed about various tax developments from recent years. A diagram at the bottom of the screenshot shows numerous income streams – Welsh Block Grant, Non-domestic rates, Welsh...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...care is needed when using the term ‘the environment’. In this free course, ‘environment’ is generally used instead of ‘the environment’. This is deliberate to avoid falling into the trap of assuming there is a single, known, universally recognised and describable set of ‘things’ that exist in relation to each other that everyone agrees constitute ‘the...