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Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...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
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...education, literature, history, psychology, and law. It was a little bit like an Open University course in a way. And you had to do a little project. In psychology she did it. And I've got her handwriting here because it's from the archives of The Open University. And it's called 'An Experiment in Prejudices.' And what she did was to ask - because she was also studying to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...De Fine Licht (1968). Figure 10 Front designs of the Pantheon. Drawing by Mark Wilson Jones. Figure 11 Comparison of the hypothetical original project for the Pantheon (left) and the building as executed (right). Drawing by Mark Wilson Jones. Discussion The Pantheon as we see it today has inspired architects for almost the last 2,000 years. It is a well-studied monument,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...educational training we did in our early lives have become obsolete within 20 or 30 years, because of the pace of change. And so I think career resilience in its broadest term is recognition of the need that we all have for lifelong learning, for agility and flexibility, as we move from one role to another, from one organisation to another, and potentially from one career...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Questioning crime: social harms and global issues
Society, Politics & Law

Questioning crime: social harms and global issues

...education, healthcare and employment were disproportionately borne by the some of the most vulnerable, including the poor, older people, and also suggesting a gendered impact reflecting gender inequality as well. Furthermore, ethnicity was seen as a particularly significant factor in terms of who was affected (Hartman and Squires, 2006b). Structures of inequality have...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...education and training. I recall a story (told by a marketing person) about a group of professionals, each given a barometer and asked to find the height of a church tower. The physicist, who remembered that air pressure changes with height, took the barometer reading at the bottom and at the top of the tower to calculate the height. The engineer dropped the barometer and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Myths in law
Society, Politics & Law

Myths in law

...education, would not let women take the exams needed to qualify as a solicitor. In 1914, four women brought a case against the Law Society,Footnote 1 but they lost. The courts ruled that women should continue to be excluded from the profession because that had been accepted practice for centuries. Ethnic minority men were not formally prohibited from becoming lawyers....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...education campaigns began to increase the Chinese people’s awareness of environmental issues. Championing biodiversity was a relatively safe topic as it did not directly criticise government and was therefore tolerated. But by the late 1990s, Chinese environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) began to be more assertive (Geall, 2013). A successful and energetic...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs