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Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...technology. As digital technology improves, it becomes possible for corporations to employ more people remotely, in locations where it can pay lower salaries. Artificial intelligence is an extreme version of the spatial fix, because it involves replacing people with software programmes that can learn and adapt. National power Governments use their spending power to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Deall datganoli yng Nghymru
Society, Politics & Law

Deall datganoli yng Nghymru

...education. I'm very proud that in Torfaen we have a Labour council that is prepared to take those decisions to protect our local services. The leader of UKIP knows nothing about the financial pressures facing the local authority in Torfaen, and I am sure that you would agree with me, Minister, that all the low hanging fruit is now gone in local authorities, and they are...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...educational institutions such as schools, colleges and universities – where the main business is teaching and learning. People, usually with special qualifications, provide learning which often leads to assessments – such as exams – and in turn leads to certificates, degrees or qualifications. Informal learning is more difficult to define because it covers so many...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...education, and to participate freely in cultural life. Article 28 specifies a right to a social and international order in which these rights and freedoms can be fully realised, while Article 29 commands a duty on the part of the rights holder to the community in which the development of his [sic] personality is possible. (Source: United Nations, 1948) As you can see,...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...Education)...Michael Macey is a post-doctoral researcher with the AstrobiologyOU research group at The Open University. His research explores the microbial communities that live in some of the most extreme environments on Earth; environments that Michael and his colleagues believe closely resemble early environments on Mars. Using microorganisms isolated from these...
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Article 10 mins
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...education, environment) multiple levels (e.g. local, national, global; micro, meso, macro). Difference This quality is rooted in the reality that all of the interested parties come with their own specific identities, arising out of – and contributing to – their own specific histories (within broader histories involving different mixes of interested parties). These...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...technologies are used. It is common for new ideas to be generated outside of operations but it is the role of the operations manager to implement those ideas. Activity 1: Introduction to operations management Timing: Allow around 50 minutes for this activity Read ‘Introduction to operations management’ (Walley, 2017). This reading introduces the
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Picturing the family
History & The Arts

Picturing the family

...technology but also European traditions of portraiture...Picturing the family: 3.1 Introducing ideology in portraiture - [Figure 9 A painting of a nobleman seated at a desk] Image 9 Photographer/Painter: French School. Subject: Portrait of a nobleman seated at a desk, c.1750. Portraiture emerged as the first major commercial application of photography because the camera...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs