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Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...community. Systems practice in the context of this course refers to the practice of systems thinking within whatever profession or calling you follow. You can be a systemic medical practitioner, a systemic wood turner, a systemic technician or a systemic manager by applying systems thinking, insights and approaches to the complexity that you encounter in any of these or...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...community charge (the poll tax, which was a charge on individuals) obliged local government bodies to make major changes to computer systems and undertake a major effort to identify whom to tax. Subsequently, the change from the poll tax to the council tax (which combines a highly modified element of the poll tax with an element of the tax based on property value)...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...community of nations and drove a wedge through the axiom of the eurozone’s indivisibility. As you probably have heard, on the night of the referendum, I disagreed with Tsipras on his assessment of the credibility of these threats and resigned as finance minister. But even if I was wrong on the issue of the credibility of the troika’s threats, my great fear was, and...
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Article 10 mins
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...community. Care providers – the vast majority of whom are in the for-profit or not-for-profit sectors rather than public sector – are nervous that the money will get stuck in local authorities and they won’t see the cash they need to keep services viable. But at least we don’t have the outrage and disappointment that followed the 2016 Autumn Statement, when high...
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Article 5 mins
Is science fiction a field in its own right?
History & The Arts

Is science fiction a field in its own right?

...community take place: one particularly hilarious example is the joke physics paper titled “Traversable Achronal Retrograde Dimensions in Spacetime” or “T.A.R.D.I.S.” (Tippett and Tsang) which posited a new theoretical model for time travel and gained a lot of media attention upon its submission to the arXiv, a database of science preprints. More serious is the...
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Article 10 mins
Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Straen a phryder yn yr oes ddigidol: Ochr dywyll technoleg

...communications industry taken from Ofcom research publications. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/media/facts (accessed 18/5/2018) Seabrook, E. M., Kern, M. L., & Rickard, N. S. (2016). Social networking sites, depression, and anxiety: a systematic review. JMIR mental health, 3(4), e50 Seo, H.S., Jeong, E., Sungwon, C., Kwon, Y., Park, H. & Kim, Inseong (2017)...
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Article 10 mins
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...communicated concerns regarding the potential ‘high risks’ posed by AI and apprehensions regarding safety, with performers indicating how they ‘would feel unsafe without human supervision’. Many of the coaches queried how safe an AI coach would be in trampolining when a ‘key element to coaching is the physical spotting and supporting’ which they suggested...
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The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...communication – the aeroplane and, above all, radio – drew metropolis and possessions closer. While BBC broadcasts to the empire radiated the metropolitan viewpoint abroad, the BBC at home disseminated the ‘BBC accent’. Such eminent Victorians as Gladstone and Tennyson, as early gramophone records show, had strong regional accents (Lancashire and Lincolnshire...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs