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Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...communication to need but the touch of a few buttons. We expect to be provided with shelter from the weather, to be entertained, transported, kept in health and defended. It is engineering that puts all this in place. All the material things – from containers of shower gel to satellites – that enable us to live our everyday life are the products of engineering (Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...communities develop. These are networks of firms whose managers share cognitive schema: core ideas about how the industry works, cause-and-effect relationships, and what constitutes reasonable conduct. These ideas simplify and constrain the ways in which managers within a group identify competitors and customers, and reason about competitive strategy. Box 3 describes some...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...communication if we want to extend those boundaries, for example into new areas of research such as embryonic stem cells or new research methods, such as GM plants and animals. (Klug, 2001) The idea that the work of scientists is in some sense ‘validated’ by public consent is a lofty ideal, but the more pragmatic motives are apparent too in the latter part of Klug's...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...communities they serve. Prerogative powers. Royal prerogative powers were powers traditionally exercised by the monarch alone. As the power of the monarch gradually diminished and the power of Parliament grew, governments representing the majority political party in Parliament began to exercise these powers. Many prerogative powers are now exercised by the UK government...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...community’ and you are likely to get some help with your work. Activity 9: Disseminating your research Timing: Time: 30 minutes Go back to your research plan and think about how you might involve a colleague, or your department or someone else in your school. Who do you need to influence? What might they do to help? What will the benefits be?...Learning to teach: An...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...Communities and Local Government, 2010). Activity 1 What factors do you believe were responsible for the increase in the proportion of households that reported their debt as being a burden during the 2000s? Comment The prime reason for this upward trend was the reduction in ‘available’ income as a result of higher household bills. The late 2000s saw sharp increases in...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...communicating in a modern way. SARAH POLFREMAN: Audio recordings for radio started in the 1960s, but television came along in 1989, and we haven’t really looked back since. It’s very important that Parliament is seen to be democratic, that the public is able to see what is going on. MIKE GREENWOOD: So the cameras and microphones can come in, but can the public? SARAH...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...community only be considered, or should rising sea levels that affect communities in (say) Asia be taken into account? If this question can be solved there are several ways of determining costs such as: equating the damage cost to the cost of capturing and storing the carbon dioxide generated equating a given emission to a given rise in sea level and setting the cost...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs