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The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...social context we are currently experiencing and how this means each of us must take more responsibility for our own finances. She also talks with George and Martin about her own money story and her own money challenges. These include efforts to overcome innate risk averseness around investment. Jonquil also signals a warning about financial scams and invites us to take...
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Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...social care, all combined with increasingly apparent levels of inequality. Moreover such a disproportion has been felt more keenly in regions outside the SE of England. Playing the blame game When the Conservative Party took power in 2010 (helped by successfully putting the blame entirely on the Party in power, Labour, during what was in reality an international...
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Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...social arrangements that give rise to the situation described. Include also, any judgements you make about these. Does the text give rise to any questions concerning arrangements and social conditions in the country where you live? If you pay taxes in the UK, or live in a household that pays taxes, what are your feelings about the situation as a tax-payer? Record your...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...social workers and many others to tackle community challenges. Using the ‘Power of Football’, the Trust continues to flourish, delivering life improving projects, which engage with over 1.5 million people per year, focusing on education, sport, inclusion and health...Week 1: Football: a business like no other: Learning outcomes - After studying Week 1 you should be...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...social commentator and cartoonist Michael Leunig's depiction of a solitary figure looking through an ‘understandascope’ (Figure 2) a particularly skilled way of capturing the sense of bewilderment I sometimes feel. For the purposes of Sections 4–7 I am using his cartoon featuring the ‘understandascope’ because it raises a number of important questions relevant...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...social, cultural and historical factors all influence the ways children learn and how teachers teach. In comparative education studies it’s important to keep an open mind, to reserve judgement of what’s ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in favour of taking a clear look at what is similar and what is different. Key questions in any comparison are what makes education...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...social milieu...In this free course, Brighton Pavilion, you will examine the Royal Pavilion at Brighton, and its relationship to nineteenth-century Romanticism and exoticism. You'll begin with a biographical discussion of the Prince of Wales, afterwards Prince Regent and eventually King George IV, to whose specifications the Pavilion was built. With the help of video and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...social realist novel by Margaret Drabble, from an historical romance by Georgette Heyer to a thriller by Patricia D. Cornwell, each written according to a different set of rules. All these publications fall within broadly realist parameters, parameters that stubbornly persist long after realist strategies have lost their status as a ‘high’ art form, although they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs