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Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...public limited companies. The shares of public limited companies (PLCs) are traded in the stock market, where anybody can buy shares in the company if they wish to do so. Private limited companies are not traded in the stock market and other people can only buy shares in them with the approval of the current owners (for example, if they are invited to invest in the...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...health and well-being, and how different climates design their homes differently to maximise the benefits of the Sun...This free course, Seeing the light, will teach you about how the Sun affects your home, both in terms of light and warmth and the energy it generates. You will learn about how it can affect your health and well-being, and how different climates design...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...health stopped you from working for a significant period. Various insurances are worth investigating further, e.g. income protection insurance. You’ll look at insurance in more detail in Week 7. Of course, a recent example of the unexpected that everyone has experienced is the global Covid-19 pandemic. This has had a significant impact on freelancers in the creative...
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...public works prisons for men, just convict prisons, which often accommodated men in both stages. In the convict sector, the only remaining difference at the end of the century was between male and female prisons...Session 1: The origins of prison education: 4.1 Irish and Scottish prisons - The diagram in the previous section only maps the prison system for England and...
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...public spaces? What meaning do they hold for their associated believers and practitioners? And what messages do they give to those who are not part of their community? These are some of the issues you will be introduced to briefly in this short course. They are explored more fully in A227 Exploring religion: places, practices, texts and experiences...Religious diversity:...
Jack Perks - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Jack Perks - Earth in Vision

...public involved. I think social media has given the public a voice directly so these groups, so in a way they’re doing it fantastically. What’s the importance of social media for today’s filmmakers? I think certainly because I grew up with social media it’s kind of second nature to me. And I think some of the perhaps… and I mean this in the nicest possible way,...
Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships
Digital & Computing

Diagramming for development 2: exploring interrelationships

...health (the lack of water or use of polluted water can generate ‘water-related diseases’). The WWP therefore actively addresses the impoverishment of black South Africans, which is a serious issue. 14 million South Africans currently have no or inadequate water supplies. In 1997, unemployment stood at 37%, and 50% of the population was classified as ‘poor’. With...
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...Health Service and in local government, and I've also maintained a practice as a part-time amateur academic. I've had a strange trajectory, really. I studied psychology back in the early 1970s, and reacted pretty much against what was then seen as a revolution in psychology, the cognitive revolution, which didn't really set me alight very much. I became a behaviourist,...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs