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Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...education was within the Australian system. She was taught that Australian history started in 1770 when Captain Cook discovered Australia. She learnt about the first convict settlements, the first settlers, the explorers who trekked across the outback, opening up trails and discovering Australia. This was the history that all Australian schoolchildren grew up with and it...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...education, and generally have been perceived as fundamentally different. Are men and women equally free to create themselves, and to be who they want to be? The existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir addresses these questions in The Second Sex...Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution: 1.1 Who was Simone de Beauvoir? - Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...educators to the table. That’s a big job. It’s changing the way medical training has been done since its inception, but I believe in them. I know they’re going to see the value of incorporating the gender lens into the current curriculum. It’s about training the future health care providers correctly. And regionally, I’m a co-creator of a division within the...
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Money & Business

Introducing the voluntary sector

...education and health. These services are provided through income from taxation and, in the UK, national insurance. The private sector includes organisations and individuals that provide goods and services and their primary aim is to make a profit; for example, shops, manufacturers, financial services, etc. Profits are distributed to owners and shareholders as well as...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The business of film
History & The Arts

The business of film

...technology makes it possible for large global online firms to distribute worldwide, and again, most of these companies – Netflix, Amazon, iTunes/Apple – are US-based. Does all this matter? Maybe. Maybe not, as long as audiences get the mass entertainment they want and there are some British films in our cinemas and opportunities for British talent. However, it’s...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...technology, the machinery, the size of the machinery - everything is geared to bigger production - to compete. BEN TAYLOR: What you’re seeing is a larger-scale mechanisation coming in. You’re seeing larger kit being used and farming done on a more industrial scale. It’s becoming more of a commercial activity, rather than the more pastoral practice that has been...
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...technology such as machine translation tools can instil, but why its potential can be of huge benefit, and why it cannot fully replace your human brain. [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: A future with machine translation. It’s easy to worry that machine translation might take away the pleasure and purpose of language learning. But to understand what machine translation means for...
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...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs