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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...Technology Select Committee in 2002 with the aim of increasing public awareness and trust in science, serves a key role working with journalists and experts within the scientific community. The SMC strives 'to provide, for the benefit of the public and policymakers, accurate and evidence-based information about science and engineering through the media, particularly on...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...education would be low. JEAN HARTLEY So thinking about how you lead in a complex issue like drugs for example. It's multi-faceted, lots of different angles on it. So as a police leader, you might want to be working with schools to do education around drugs. You might want to be working with parents. You probably want to be working with the Health Service over mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...education, health, defence. ‘De-fence?’ What? This fence? Yeah, well. Right. So my cabinet is a bit like my gang. I’m the leader of that gang. I like that, it’s good. I’ll be Prime Minister, then. Finally, I will have ultimate power. Ah, but will you? Yes. Ah, but will you though? Yeah. But will you? Yes. No. Because you’re forgetting about: Parliament. Now,...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...technological texts. Figure 1a...Systems diagramming: 2.3 Structure and process - Diagrams are normally intended to describe either structure or process and not both. Table 1 gives a classification of diagram types by structure or process. Another way to view this is to note that there are diagram types that represent largely static relationships and those that represent...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...Technology, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration © NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Figure 12: NGC 4051 is a member of a class of galaxies known as Seyfert galaxies. In this optical image (at a wavelength of around 440 nm) a false colour...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...technology to transmit programmes beyond the control of any particular nation-state) are notable for their global impact and for forcing us to rethink the relationship between technology, language and social relations, as well as opening up new opportunities for communicating over vast distances. These three processes are clearly interrelated, for globalisation would make...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...technologies and people by an individual, organisation or community. It is important to add a note of caution here in that ‘management’ tends to imply that there is a known procedure, administrative process or skill set that can be used to control, organise or direct resources for some purpose. Whether these procedures and skills are known and available, and whether...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...technological, social, political) Adopts appropriate management styles Communicates effectively Negotiates/persuades/influences Listing and grouping a manager’s activities goes a little way towards making some sense out of the complexities of managerial work, but it does not offer any explanations. Another difficulty is that many other jobs have many of these...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs