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The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...educate them on the law of armed conflict. Narrator: Ignorance of humanitarian law is something that must be fought. If people don’t even know the rules they’re supposed to obey, compliance with the law is impossible. Speaker 3: These rules are taken from international conventions that your own country has signed. Everybody has a right to be cared for when he or she...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...educational qualifications. However, most of your learning is likely to be much more informal and drawn from your work and life experiences. This learning depends on your ability to reflect on and draw learning from these experiences (this is often referred to as experiential learning). For some, reflection is quite a natural process but for most of us it is a skill that...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...educational context of advanced scribal training. Early Mesopotamian culture had seen the development of specialised occupations, as a part of the newly-developing and highly-complex urban structuring of the community, and the profession of scribe was central to the running of economic, bureaucratic and other aspects of the state. There were special institutions, schools,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...education which may, in time, signal ‘the end for the traditional university’. To learn more about the potential for developments of this kind read the news article from The Guardian...Technology, innovation and management: 2 What is innovation? - As we noted in the introduction, Joseph Schumpeter, a seminal thinker on innovation and economics, argued that capitalism...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...educated wealthy men. Can we recreate the experiences and perspectives of women, children and slaves? Only by studying a variety of evidence and by carefully evaluating its context can we begin to recreate and explore differing perspectives. This block, like the course as a whole, is about posing questions, finding ways of investigating these questions and evaluating the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
History & The Arts

Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks

...des sçavans, together with extracts of his letter to Chapelain. I say almost verbatim, because at several points in the narrative phrases have been inserted: ‘having there adjusted his Watches’, ‘having a great confidence in the said Watches’. The same account translated into Dutch eventually featured as the unique account of a sea-trial of pendulum clocks to be...
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Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: Green pools, drug cheats, sexism and nationality - A short reading list

...de Janeiro, world-champion athletes and sport commentators — who also happen to be women — have faced offensive slights about everything from their choice of summer dress, to the gold-medal "catfights." Credit for their accomplishments has also been thrown to the men in their lives, too. (Yes, for real.) On Sunday, The Chicago Tribune identified U.S. medallist Corey...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...des Plantes, Levrault, Schell & Co., Paris. Kohn, D.D. and Walsh, D.M. 1994. Plant species richness – the effect of island size and habitat diversity. Journal of Ecology, 82, 367–377. Linder, H.P. 2005. The evolution of diversity: the Cape flora. Trends in Plant Science, 10, 537–542. MacArthur, R.H. and Wilson, E.O. 1967. The Theory of Island Biogeography. Princeton...
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Article 20 mins