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You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...education to enable them to meet their expenses. With the cost of higher education increasing in recent years, the SLC has become a major lender. The alternative credit market consists of ‘sub-prime lenders’ aimed primarily at people on low incomes. Such lenders include some loans companies, door-to-door money lenders, rental purchase shops, ‘sell and buy back’...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...education Protocol 1 Article 3 Right to free and fair elections Protocol 4 Article 1 Prohibition of imprisonment for debt Protocol 6 Article 1 Abolition of the death penalty Protocol 7 Article 2 Right to appeal on conviction or sentence Protocol 7 Article 3 Right to compensation for victims of miscarriages of justice Footnotes * A total of 14 protocols have been added to...
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...education system’ or ‘transport system’. This everyday usage can lead to misunderstanding and conflict because different stakeholders will make different boundary judgements based on their different experiences. This is the same as saying that one person’s education system will be different to another’s. Conflict and confusion often arises because of lack of...
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...education in the UK comes the responsibility of a local authority to provide schools and a responsibility placed upon parents to ensure their children attend school. Rights ‘Rights’ is a word that can be used in many ways. Lawyers use it to indicate that a person has a specific entitlement – for example, the right not to be dismissed unfairly from their job, or the...
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...technology it has become relatively easy, as long as there is internet access, to find records of decisions made by a court. Lawyers rely on formal reports of cases – not newspaper reports –and these can be found in official law reports. The Scottish Council of Law Reporting, a company limited by guarantee, has been established by the Scottish legal profession to...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...education) and the growing ideas of material progress associated with Adam Smith's discussion of the ‘wealth of nations’ (den Boer, 1995, pp.58–65). A general idea of progress associated with the mainstream of European development soon began to prevail over the cultural elitism implied by the emphasis on civilization. It took a specific political form in the...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Understanding musical scores
History & The Arts

Understanding musical scores

...technology, writing music down from existing sounds is much easier, but in early times when there was no way of recording sound, this was a big challenge. So, how do musicians define the elements of pitch and rhythm, and how have musical scores evolved to convey them?...Week 1: Understanding the principles of musical scores: 1.1.4 The ear-eye connection - You may not have...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...technology moved with time from the primary evaluation of single compounds in animal models, through organ baths to modern ultra high-throughput profiling of millions of compounds, the character and appearance of molecules evolved too. Such approaches may provide very many active compounds against the primary target; but to be an effective drug, the experimental molecule...