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Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this course: Course image: Esad Hajdarevic in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence. The content acknowledged below is Proprietary and is used under licence. All written material...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...write ‘bY’ instead of writing ‘b × Y’ (with the multiplication sign ‘×’). The general rule is that when two terms are placed side by side, they are to be multiplied. The economy as modelled by the circular flow diagram, below, appears to be a rather peaceful place, where expenditure is always identical to output and saving is always identical to investment....
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...write this piece. But what do you think is really most distinctive about the idea of global development compared to other understandings of development? RORY HORNER I think fundamentally we’re talking about a change in the geography of development. So we often think of development issues just in relation to – and we have different terms, we have third world,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...writes that obesity is usually treated as the responsibility of individuals or families, and is not viewed as a social problem in the same way as, for example, low-educational achievement. As a result the solutions provided are pitched at the individual or family level. 3. In terms of children, which borough in London is England’s ‘most obese council’? Comment In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...write down your responses on a sheet of paper that you can refer to later in this course.) Putting yourself in the role of the community police officer, what would you want to get out of the situation? How would you ‘diagnose’ the behaviour of the community member towards you? What behaviours do you think they are displaying towards you? What do you think might be the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...creativity, innovation and dynamics in our social systems to start amplifying a step in the right direction to the necessary walking up the ladder of change to a very different future if you like. RH: I mean there are many problems of course, but one enormous problem is coal; what to do about countries that have coal, vast reserves of coal and want to be able...
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Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...creative attitude to the truth. When you’re on the campaign trail, trying to be all things to all people, you’re bound to talk up your achievements or promises a little too much. That’s simply the nature of the game. It’s how it’s always been. Transcript Nick Duffell The first thing to say is that it's incredibly natural and normal to tell the odd porky, you...
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Video 5 mins