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Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...health a few years ago. However, no convincing scientific evidence has been produced to prove this effect. We’ve left the section on plastics in the video because it’s important to understand that science advances by testing hypotheses. This is a process which includes scientific study and debate, and can take several years, during which time scare stories continue to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Professional relationships with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Professional relationships with young people

...health and fitness’ agenda, sometimes with a ‘community development’ orientation. You may associate such activities more with group work, but they are also useful as a tool and, as a context, for developing relationships. Engaging young people in activities that they find pleasurable means they are more likely to be relaxed and to chat with people around them. In...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997, unemployment stood at 37%, and 50% of the population was classified as ‘poor’. With...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introduction to business agility
Money & Business

Introduction to business agility

...health facilities, manufactured products, distribution and financial services all leverage software to solve human needs. Whereas in a factory 1,500 cars might be produced every day, one car a minute, repeating the same processes over and over again, in the Age of Digital, you do not write the same software thousands of times. Software is written once and then runs...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer trawsnewid digidol
Digital & Computing

Gweithio hybrid: sgiliau ar gyfer trawsnewid digidol

...health outcomes and a lower life expectancy, increased loneliness and social isolation, less access to jobs and education. It can mean paying more for essentials, financial exclusion, an increased risk of experiencing poverty. People who are digitally excluded also lack a voice and visibility in the modern world, as government services and democracy increasingly move...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...health! / In this mosaic Dionysus, the god of wine and fruitfulness - is surrounded by the four seasons - representing the creative energy of nature and its cyclical renewal throughout the year. / Here the young Dionysus rides a tiger surrounded by his satyrs and baccantes in a circular procession. Around these is a border composed of scallop shells, tridents and...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...wellbeing of their participants at all times. Research ethics is also concerned with identifying high standards of research conduct and putting them into practice. Cameron and Price (2009) suggest that researcher conduct is guided by a number of different obligations: Legal obligations which apply not only to the country in which researchers conduct the project, but also...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring philosophy: faking nature
History & The Arts

Exploring philosophy: faking nature

...wellbeing, right? So ecosystem services, for instance, providing clean air, clean water. There's all those kinds of practical benefits that natural spaces can have. [MUSIC PLAYING] Erich Hatala Matthes on the value of nature Hatala Matthes argues that ‘we should be pluralists about the value of nature’. Among the values placed on nature is its relative independence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs