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Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Ben Van Beurden - Stories of Change

...public and NGOs has continued to grow as well and that’s why we see a lot of energy and a lot of anxiety around this issue at this point in time. But there will, of course, come a point in time that either the world collectively gets its act together, that the political will to act on some of the things that are going to be unpopular is going to be there on the day that...
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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
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...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
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,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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,...
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Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...publication of high quality educational materials, organised as courses. In 2001, MIT was the first university to work on putting many of the teacher-defined support materials from its undergraduate and graduate courses online, in MIT OpenCourseWare. The term ‘open educational resources’ was coined by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs