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Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...education opportunities more accessible. The Equality Act of 2010 brought together lots of different legislation including previous legislation on sex, race and disability, in order to make the legal requirements easier to understand. Freedom of movement from European Union member states has also contributed to significant work force diversity. European migrants work in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting older people with learning disabilities and their families

...de-sac in the suburbs of a large market town and is made up of four bungalows, each of which supports six residents. Susie lives in one of the bungalows. The bungalow has a front garden with lots of plants in big pots, garden ornaments, bird feeders and several places to sit. The building is light and airy and welcoming. There is a large, shared lounge, a small kitchen, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...De Brazza's guenons draw attention to their white-bearded dewlaps by shaking their heads when signalling aggression [p. 271], and dominant male vervet monkeys subdue subordinate males by flaunting their blue scrotums and red penises [p. 270]. The ability to use facial expressions has increased the complexity of social interactions between primates; therefore the brains of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...and case studies - [Described image] Figure 6 The exemplary city: damage to the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, in 1871, following the collapse of the Paris Commune. Nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Paris is a basic reference point for modern urban theory There is a clear relationship between causal generalisation and the use of empirical case studies underlying Harvey’s explanatory narrative. The explanatory analysis ......
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
What is poetry?
History & The Arts

What is poetry?

...doesn’t suit the poem. A light-hearted poem might rely on strong rhyme (and a dum-de-dum rhythm). However, a more facile rhyme won’t suit a more contemplative poem, for example. If we impose rhyme too early in the process, we risk sacrificing the content to the form, before we’ve even discovered the theme of our poem. When we write, we’re panning for gold. We often find we’re not actually writing the poem we think we’......
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing consciousness
History & The Arts

Introducing consciousness

...de facto causal basis of consciousness, but we have, it seems, no understanding whatever of how this can be so. It strikes us as miraculous, eerie, even faintly comic. Somehow, we feel, the water of the physical brain is turned into the wine of consciousness, but we draw a total blank on the nature of this conversion. Neural transmissions just seem like the wrong kind of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Data analysis: hypothesis testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Data analysis: hypothesis testing

...educated guesses about the whole population. The formula uses “s”, which is calculated from our sample, to estimate how spread out the entire population might be. The t-distribution follows a unique pattern that differs from the normal distribution. When you calculate the t-statistic multiple times using various samples, the results conform to this t-distribution....
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...education for the young people of Nairobi's slum areas. She earns enough working as a web designer to support her whole family. The Web is opening up new flows of information and debate – key components of sustainable development. (Photo: Sven Torfin/Panos) If the relatively obscure groupings of policy experts, NGOs and intellectuals who were talking about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs