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Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...social benefit. After studying this course, you should be able to: outline various ways in which innovation can be understood and how it differs from other, related concepts such as creativity discuss key forms of innovation in policing outline key methods and frameworks for innovation discuss ways in which organisations can become more innovative outline the role of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...social issues...Census stories: Bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes: 1 What can the census tell us about religion? - Before you start thinking through the course's key questions in more depth, watch this short film explaining how the census data can help us understand religious identity in Milton Keynes: NARRATOR Are we getting less religious? Every ten years in...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses, for example enrolling at a college for a formal qualification. (You will be given details on this at...
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Free course 48 hrs
Succeed with learning Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...social environment? Maybe it depends what you are learning? If you want to improve your dancing skills, for example, you will probably want to learn with others. However, you may well prefer to learn cooking by yourself so that you can make mistakes privately! A point you may want to consider when planning future learning is that it is often easier to concentrate when we...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...socially inferior. But as one English-speaker writing in the 1380s, John of Fordun, makes clear, Gaelic was still viewed, even in his community, as ‘the Scottish speech’. ‘[T]wo languages are spoken among them, the Scottish and the Teutonic; the latter of which is the language of those who occupy the seaboard and plains, while the race of Scottish speech inhabits...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...social principles in behalf of the Man rather than the Master, and we have not yet surmounted all the difficulties or dangers of the experiment. It is droll how, in a tolerably well-meaning world like this, any sort of contempt becomes inclusive, and a whole population suffers for the vice, or it may be the virtue, of a very small majority, or a very powerful minority....
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Article 10 mins
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...social media platforms Even if you’re not on them, they track you. So what you’re talking about is disrupting this whole model… And turning it upside down… It goes beyond the uberisation of the economy. What this is about is actually a totally different way of thinking about data. If you think of how we’re so used to handling data, let’s say personal data...
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Article 10 mins
“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language
Languages

“Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth”: why Good Friday Agreement affects the Irish language

...Social and Cultural Issues’, the Agreement committed its co-guarantors to taking a series of actions and interventions aimed at recognising ‘the importance of respect, understanding and tolerance’, citing Irish as ‘part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland.’ For the very first time, the British Government was party to an agreement which included...
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Article 5 mins