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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...writes a weekly column in The Times and writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal. As Viscount Ridley, he was elected to the House of Lords in February 2013. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Academy of Medical Sciences, and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is honorary president of the International...
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Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...writing these down before you read on. One student has said: I am never quite sure that I have understood what the figures mean. I tend to skip over the graphs or charts that I come across, hoping that I can get the information I need from the text. This is one course in a series of Student Toolkits; there are (or will be) others to help you with such things as effective...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Making sense of mental health problems
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of mental health problems

...writing these down on a piece of paper, so that she can take these notes with her when/if she goes to see her general practitioner (GP). To do this, try to write a few paragraphs in response to each of the questions below as if you are preparing notes for Mandy. At this stage use your own judgement and experiences, recording your initial thoughts, without worrying about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...write a little bit now, and I use it for research. Mostly recipes, it must be said, at the moment. But yeah, I use it for those sorts of things, to find things out. JESS I use the internet a lot. I have a Facebook. I rely on emails for everything. Facebook, which is obviously for friends, I use that a lot for work. I know that I've got jobs in the past that I wouldn't...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introducing vectors for engineering applications
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing vectors for engineering applications

...write v equals horizontal of magnitude two times Square root of three postfix plus vertical of magnitude two full stop [Described image] Figure 14 A vector and its components The vector bold v and its horizontal and vertical components form a triangle, as illustrated in Figure 14, and we discovered in Chapter 1 that vector sums form triangles. So this equation makes sense...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...writing he is on remand in prison awaiting his trial. However, this was not the only consequence of the risk management failings at UBS. Shortly after the discovery of the losses, the Chief Executive of UBS, Oswald Grubel, resigned. The bank was also criticised for its risk management failures by some of its largest shareholders. UBS subsequently announced plans to reduce...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course Image: Copyright © Olesya Zhigula/123RF Video: Activity 1: extract...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Course image: © krblokhin; Getty Images Section 4 image: ©...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr