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Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...become involved with the work of the Scottish Parliament...This free course, The Scottish Parliament and law making, explores the law making powers of the Scottish Parliament and examines its place in the UK’s constitution. It considers how, and why, laws are made by both the Scottish and UK Parliaments before exploring devolved matters, reserved matters, legislative...
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...student without instructing him, and it is far better to devote yourself to a few authors than to get lost among many. (Seneca, 2005, p. 45) Seneca wrote these words 2,000 years ago; as a Stoic philosopher he sought ‘tranquillity of mind’. He felt that one source of stress in life was simply ‘too much information’. Yet then, as today, we all need information to...
Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...students by the US National Guard during a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. His activism has more recently led him to criticize US foreign policy during the Iraq War, off-shore fracking, and the use of GMOs by multinational corporations. Professor Halliwell continued: “Arguably, Neil Young has more contemporary relevance than Bob Dylan, who is back on the...
The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...student, Critias, who was considered to be among the worst of the tyrants and was thought to have been corrupted by Socrates. It has also been suggested, based in part on interpretations of Plato's dialogue of the Meno, that Anytus blamed Socrates for corrupting his son. Anytus, it seems, had been grooming his son for a life in politics until the boy became interested in...
How to use a musical score
History & The Arts

How to use a musical score

...student at the Royal Northern College of Music and will be performing in the Leeds International Piano Competition. How does a pianist view a score? Pianist Alexander Panfilov explains how he works with the score to discover more about textures and structures of the piece as he prepares for his performance. Schubert’s Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 The final movement...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...become a part of the ‘social information’ held by others in the colony. These bees out-compete the directions given by other bees dancing less vigorously. Some more recent studies of bee behaviour suggest that ‘private information’ held by individual bees (e.g. the memory of where they found nectar on a previous foraging trip) is also at play. Guidance given by...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago
Money & Business

10 billion dollar companies that didn't exist 10 years ago

...students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, Dropbox is the answer to every scatty student's prayers. The idea came about when Houston kept forgetting to bring his USB stick to college to hand his assignments in (yeah, right!) - and the rest, they say, is history. Dropbox is a file hosting service that allows users to send videos, transfer various documents and keep images...
Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
Money & Business

Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis

...student, Natalie Andrew, in 2013. Natalie gathered the information for her analysis primarily from her work surroundings, but also used the internet to gather more information about her own and other companies in the same line of business. She wrote the report in response to this assignment question: Assignment question Write a report analysing your organisation in its...