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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...
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
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
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...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...Technology Support Unit was asked by the European Commission to assess the costs and benefits of the proposed changes (Brown, 1996). Determining the private costs of the measure is beyond the scope of this course, but quantifying the externalities provides an interesting example of the use of this tool. The assessment was based on the ExternE methodology, which can be...
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...technologies that we develop to accomplish that, they'll become available to other countries and hopefully those countries will feel the same imperative eventually to become energy efficient and put in place all the renewable systems. I So if I had to put you on the spot and give you a statement and just to see whether you would go along with it, so would you say that the...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...educate his readers (although the educational content of this poetry often concerned scandalous themes!). Famous works from this period include Ars Amatoria (‘The Art of Love’) and Remedia Amoris (‘Cures for Love’). 4 8 CE, Ovid is exiled (or so he says!) to Tomis. By the time of his exile he had written the Metamorphoses and was working on a poem called the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs