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Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...family or employees that might be caused by changes at Riverside (the new system will not necessarily make such changes, but it might). And many further groups might be thought about – to pick one example, what if drug companies could pay to have their drug’s name appear first on the list when doctors are creating a prescription?...Successful IT systems: 4.4 Power...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...family member to go through with them verbally and help them through the process. Depending on the role that you do, you might be asked to do a technical task. So the internet is a wealth of information. So I definitely recommend people to do their research thoroughly on the company. There's lots, especially, if you're going for a very corporate well-known company, there...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...family member to answer an assignment question for them because they have expertise in this area and so will get better marks than if the student tries to do it themselves. This is still plagiarism, but it is also intentional fraud. A student comes across the ‘right answer’ to part of their assignment on a website, and cuts and pastes this into their assignment. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...family members or pets. The experiment shouldn’t take more than half an hour or so to carry out, so you won’t need to be vigilant for too long. What results do you expect to see in this experiment? Try to write down a hypothesis that you will be testing...Week 3: Sugar, yeast and life: 3.1.1 The experiment - Follow Janet’s instructions in the video (or use your...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...family’s home in the early seventies, my father read The Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, and the fear that we are going to run out of energy was one of the big features of that report and in ’73 it then became almost a reality in Germany and I think in Europe as a whole, when the oil boycott kicked in. And I can remember we could play on the motorways because on...
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Audio 5 mins
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...family and on and on and on, have begun divesting. At the same time, we’re also working very hard against any of the big expansion plans of the fossil fuel industry; trying to, kind of, freeze their new infrastructures. So whether the fight’s about the tar sands in Alberta and the Keystone Pipeline, or about the Galilee Basin in Australia and the plans by the groups...
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Audio 5 mins
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...family: ‘Should we give money to people on the streets, or to a charitable organisation?’; ‘Should we offer food or drink, rather than money?’; ‘Which homelessness charity should we give to?’ These questions all relate to being ‘partial’ in choosing our actions, and there aren’t any easy answers to these questions. Indeed, many of the answers rely on...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...family, the counterculture reproduced traditional (even conservative) positions for women, as their roles – like their mothers and grandmothers before them – were to provide unpaid domestic and sexual labour: cooking, cleaning, caring for the children, and sleeping with the men. As such, men set the agenda of the counterculture, while women tended to occupy more...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs