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Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...educational well-being of the community. The courses also provide another way of helping you to progress from informal to formal learning. To complete a course you need to be able to find about 24 hours of study time, over a period of about 8 weeks. However, it is possible to study them at any time, and at a pace to suit you. Badged courses are all available on The Open...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...education qualification, and (d) shares and bonds on the financial markets. Before examining housing and the balance sheet further, it is important to be certain about the difference between income and wealth: Income is a flow of money received over a period of time, such as a salary every month, weekly rent from a property, annual interest from savings, or a weekly cash...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...education is all about. It’s questioning issues, often issues of common knowledge. Now, of course, this doesn’t mean to say that you play everything safe and that you reference absolutely everything. You have to think about what you’re doing. You have to recognise that there are some things which are, if you like, common knowledge, which are unchanging. But there...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...education or looking for part-time positions, internship and work experience opportunities are certainly available to you. However, you’ll find that many of the roles advertised online are aimed at school, college or university students, so a more proactive approach can be beneficial. Of course, this can be a useful approach for anyone looking for work experience and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...de España delivered its verdicts. Of the 28 defendants in the trial, 21 were found guilty on a range of charges from forgery to murder. In the early stages of the investigation a blue plastic bag containing detonators was found near the scene of the bombings at a railway station. A print was taken from the bag and the FBI in the USA was sent a digital copy of the print....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...education, defence and capital investment, for example, in railways. This residue, which arguably can’t be allocated to households, amounts to 10% to 20% of the total UK carbon footprint. This means that consumption decisions by individuals and households are responsible for creating or triggering 80% to 90% of the UK’s carbon footprint (Barrett et al., 2011). This...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...education, of the rise of a young man from his rural roots towards metropolitan sophistication, then it also appears to undermine this very familiar Victorian tale. As Kate Flint says in the introduction (p.xvii), Pip's Bildungsroman is the ‘antithesis’ of those well-known and widely read contemporary chronicles of humble perseverance, such as Samuel Smiles's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Political ordering
Society, Politics & Law

Political ordering

...education and social services, barely existed. Today, along with defence, these are the largest areas of state policy and provision, even after privatisations (the transfer of state bodies and functions to the private sector) and the rise of the market principle from the mid 1980s across Western and a number of other democracies. The economic and social role of the state...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs