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Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...mental thing from a word or figure? Or does it mean that pictures are like words and figures but that they operate in terms of a different language, one that may be more likely to be understood by people in many different cultures? (We should point out, however, that some anthropologists claim to have found non-western cultures where people appear not to recognise...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...health warnings, however. We are not about to advocate the picking over of people’s language in silly, microscopic ways – that would be a recipe for paralysis. Likewise, we recognise that some people are more fluent than others verbally. Some people may, for example, much prefer listening, thinking and then composing their thoughts, in order to re-enter conversations...
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...wellbeing of staff, who will struggle to maintain a healthy work–life balance. The board of directors should pay attention to the importance of delegation of authority and segregation of duties to ensure efficiency and reduce the risk of fraud, money laundering, abuse and error. The board should evaluate the performance of management to ensure that the risk of...
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...health education, but in this programme the workers were explaining how batteries were expensive or unavailable and electricity supplies unreliable or simply non-existent. The programme provided Baylis with a problem, and inspired him to find an innovative solution. Baylis's invention, as you have probably guessed, was the clockwork radio, Figure 2. He wasn't the first...
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...health care or how they are treated in the labour market. We will focus on the last of these considerations and, in particular, why the labour market status of some groups of workers is significantly worse than that for the population at large. This does not mean that discrimination in the labour market is a more relevant consideration than other forms of discrimination,...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...health care; poor roads and transport links, and lack of employment opportunities. Defining ‘rurality’ is by no means straightforward, but it is important to understand and recognise the benefits and costs of living in a rural area. It is worth recognising that not all rural areas are the same, and that the rural context and rural challenges within each of the four...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...health and wellbeing, economies and infrastructure. In recent years, every region of the world has experienced impacts from record weather extremes: record temperatures and dangerous heatwaves, including marine heatwaves; sudden droughts; more intense storms and rainfall and damaging floods; and widespread wildfires in areas previously unaccustomed to them. For example,...
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...mental characteristics – size, development or immaturity, and so on – which are common to all children, or by local, cultural decisions. This second idea of childhood changes with time, place, commercialism, politics, and even with individuals; in the West, it has been commonly associated with lack of responsibility. Consequently, how do we categorise children’s...