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Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...children, it’s been shown in research that women disproportionately take on the burden of paid and unpaid labour. So this affects women both with and without children. So with women with children, obviously have the additional responsibility of childcare issues as well. But there’s the concern that this flexibility will make it easier for women to take on these...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess

...researchers seem to have said that there is a universal disgust response when you see faeces, but particularly when you smell it. But can you imagine having to do that research? That made me smile, the thought of how you carry out your research project? But nevertheless, in the early modern past you had status the higher up the royal chain of command you were, and the...
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Article 30 mins
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...children. The first word you hear is ‘Wow!’ [TURBINE SPINNING] ADAM TWINE So here, out west, we’re on the farm on the Oxford and Wiltshire border. I farm here. This is our crop of barley at the back here – golden, blowing brightly in the breeze. LIZ ROTHSCHILD So I’m called Liz. This is Sue. Well, I’m sort of inevitably involved with the wind farm because my...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...children in the class. Find an upper estimate for the number of sheets of drawing paper he should supply for the whole class. Find a lower estimate. Use your calculator to find the exact number of sheets of paper. Answer Each of the 26 children will need 26 pieces of paper, so altogether 26 × 26, i.e. 262 sheets of paper are required. Upper estimate: If there were 30...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Training for endurance in sport and fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Training for endurance in sport and fitness

...centre of mass-- essentially, the area surrounding the hips has to stay level. Obviously, some of these factors are inherited and cannot be changed while others can be modified. In general, Kenyan and Ethiopian runners tend to have more of the unmodifiable factors such as relatively long legs compared to height, low body fat, narrow hips, and small calves. Any athlete's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection
Money & Business

Entrepreneurial impressions – reflection

...research evidence on entrepreneurial personality and on the role of informal ties with family and friends. There are still many unresolved questions about the nature of entrepreneurship, and as a consequence you can find people with radically different experiences and opinions...In this free course, Entrepreneurial impressions - reflection, you will be encouraged to...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...centre of his diagram was what he called the ‘most beautiful skull’, that of a woman from Georgia in the Caucasus – giving rise to the term ‘Caucasian’. Several factors contributed to the modern construction of ‘race’, including: The Christianisation of Europe and the end of the Wars of Religion (1520s–1710s). After prolonged religious conflict, a period...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...researchers, policymakers and practitioners all interested and working in the development industry. In Video 1, conference participants talk about the contrast between development in the twentieth and the twenty-first century. INTERVIEWER What does development mean to you in the twenty-first century? JULIUS MUGWAGWA Very interesting question. I think development to me...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs