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Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...families and related services. The group of educational leaders might decide to collaborate and join up services despite the lack of a new building because of their vision for the children of the area, or there may be increased polarisation and competition between schools...Leadership: external context and culture: 4 Policy and context - Throughout this course you may...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...families of lower socio-economic backgrounds were encouraged to take out increasingly unsustainable loans to get on the ‘housing ladder’ (Dymski, 2012). However, when many of these households were no longer able to repay their mortgage rates, the ‘housing market bubble’ burst and plunged the US economy, and then the world economy, into crisis. Shaken by the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...family and friends became really worried about me. (Travis, exercise participant) Have you ever had a sport injury? If so, you are not alone. Injury is a relatively common occurrence among sport and exercise participants (Peterson and Renstrom, 2016). It is difficult to obtain accurate information about the exact rates of injury occurrence but an NHS report suggested that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Critical criminology and the social sciences
Society, Politics & Law

Critical criminology and the social sciences

...history, to understand the behaviour of organisations and individuals within organisations. This behaviour needs to be understood in multiple contexts, including culture, social, economic and political institutions, markets, government regulation and other regulation, and the habits, routines, and systems that we construct to make organisations function. Often, we...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...history of the wearer. He is best known for Locard’s Exchange Principle which can be summarised as ‘every contact leaves a trace’ Locard’s Exchange Principle states: ‘Wherever two surfaces come into contact, a transfer of minutiae, however slight, occurs.’ Kirk described this as follows: Wherever he steps, whatever he touches, whatever he leaves – even...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...history as a learner, both in a formal setting (such as at school or on another course) and informally, through unstructured or unexpected learning experiences. Pause for a moment and consider each of these two points in turn...Learning how to learn: 2.2 Your motivation - Activity 2 Why did you decide to become a student and what do you hope to gain from your studies?...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
London's 1818 public health crisis
History & The Arts

London's 1818 public health crisis

...family were attacked with it three different times; and it was only arrested by the destruction of all the furniture in the apartment. Thus it may be said, the sufferers became diseased through their own contagion and your committee cannot contemplate without serious apprehension, what might have been the result of this epidemic daily gaining strength, if it had not been...
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Article 10 mins
The UK votes out: Instant reaction
Society, Politics & Law

The UK votes out: Instant reaction

...family rights and the benefits of diversity get very little mention. The debate hasn’t changed UK politics but it’s brought out some of the nastiness in our political life – something that potential immigrants might want to consider. Paul Cairney, professor of politics and public policy, University of Stirling The truth is we don’t know what will happen in...
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Article 10 mins