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Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...change to be successful...Session 3: Creating value: 1 Practice and theory - While it’s tempting to dismiss theory and go straight to creating your product or service, you may quickly run into problems with cash-flow, HMRC, suppliers and customers, amongst others, if you haven’t first established your legal status and your business model. A little planning and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...change in Britain in the years after the French Revolution...Wilberforce: 1.1 Early influences - In the early summer of 1771, the clergyman and writer John Newton (1725–1807) was visited at Olney by two of his admirers, William and Hannah Wilberforce, a wealthy childless couple, and their 11-year-old nephew and heir, also named William. Newton made a profound impression...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...changes you can make in your own work and practice to improve people’s lives. You will also meet a panel of experts who will bring their perspectives to the issues raised throughout the course. Our experts are: [An image of two people sitting at a table and smiling.] Dawn Wiltshire and Pam Bebbington are both members of My Life My Choice, a self-advocacy organisation...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: A winning design
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: A winning design

...changes over time. However, biologists remain ignorant about what the ancestors of monotremes looked like and what historic relationship they had with the evolutionary lines that gave rise to marsupial and placental mammals. In the section you have just read, there were a number of references to pages in LoM given in square brackets [ ]. Indeed, unless stated otherwise,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex
History & The Arts

The obscure history of the ‘virgin’s disease’ that could be cured with sex

...change there, then. Virginity as a ‘disease’ But one thing was very different when early modern writers thought about virginity. They believed in a particular disease which only virgins could have. First described in the 16th century, what was called “the disease of virgins” had a range of usefully vague symptoms: feeling faint, breathlessness, odd eating habits....
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Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?
Society, Politics & Law

Is blocking migrant benefits missing the point?

...change in policy, based on the claim that the UK welfare system can’t cope with demand. Now, most countries are not against welfare restrictions. Some central European states do see it as discriminating against their citizens, but it is not unfeasible that Cameron will be able to get a deal. In fact, a timely focus group study revealed that Poles and Bulgarians...
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Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...changed by how we know it, I have come to realise that they are not just the means to an explanatory end. I might choose certain explanatory or theoretical frameworks because they suit my interests, but the reason I do this is because it is not sufficient to just offer observation or description alone. If I want to see how a certain identity is enacted through a state’s...
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Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned
Society, Politics & Law

Fiscal policy in the post-financial crisis era: debates and lessons learned

...changed. Instead, the world has witnessed a widening of wealth and income inequalities. Transcript Further learning materials Arestis, P. and Sawyer, M. (2014) Fiscal and Debt Policies for the Future, Springer Link, available here: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137269539#toc Ilori, A., Paez-Farrell J., and Thoenissen, C., 2021, Fiscal policy shocks and...
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