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The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...public controversy. Moreover, you face a choice of research techniques. These choices can have a considerable effect upon the outcome of your research. For instance, if you ask for responses to standardised questions from a large number of families you may be able to compare the results between one group and another. However, if you spend a greater amount of time with a...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...Health Service and the expansion to state benefit schemes. [The image is the top of a letter from HMRC concerning National Insurance. The letter is lying the keyboard of a computer.] Figure 3 National Insurance Contributions (NICs) are like another tax NICs from employers and employees make up the second largest single contribution to UK government receipts – close to a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...health sector is a professional context that everyone has first-hand experience with. People might not have medical knowledge or be employed at a doctor’s surgery or hospital, but the vast majority of people will spend time in these environments as a patient at least once in their life. Imagine you are at a hospital ward and experience the scene below. You have an...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...public realm as well as devising our own projects. JULIA CHARLES: We operate within the corporate sector and the private sector. So an example of a corporate event, we do a product launch for Audi for their new car. And that would involve project management and we could then work on an amazing private event where we could organise a large festival for a private client for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...publication of a wide range of empirical studies of innovation in the mid to late 1970s, it was argued by Mowery and Rosenberg in 1978 that: Essentially, these empirical results indicated that the technology push and need [demand] pull models of innovation were extreme and atypical examples of a more general process of interaction between, on the one hand, technological...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...public speaking or similar tasks – or, more likely, you reflect and learn from experience. Over time you develop differing degrees of awareness of how to respond appropriately in different situations. The opening two sessions of this course will accelerate your learning from experience. [Described image] Figure 1 Communication is key. In this first session of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...health in humans...Living psychology: animal minds: 4 From animal to human emotions - [Described image] Figure 6 Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp (1943−2017) holding a degu Another way of conceptualising basic emotions is in terms of the motivations that they give the animal experiencing them. The neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp identified seven distinct primal (rather than...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?
Society, Politics & Law

Will a new European law mean YouTube has to monitor your uploads?

...public statements about the Platform Liability inquiry, emphasize “voluntary” measures. For example, Article 4.7 says that “Member States shall encourage co-regulation and self-regulation through codes of conduct. . . They shall provide for effective enforcement, including when appropriate effective and proportionate sanctions.” It is not clear what exactly these...
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