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Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...family’s home in the early seventies, my father read The Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, and the fear that we are going to run out of energy was one of the big features of that report and in ’73 it then became almost a reality in Germany and I think in Europe as a whole, when the oil boycott kicked in. And I can remember we could play on the motorways because on...
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Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution
History & The Arts

Janis Joplin and the Sexual Revolution

...family, the counterculture reproduced traditional (even conservative) positions for women, as their roles – like their mothers and grandmothers before them – were to provide unpaid domestic and sexual labour: cooking, cleaning, caring for the children, and sleeping with the men. As such, men set the agenda of the counterculture, while women tended to occupy more...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...families have been a part of Grand Isle’s makeup. People come down on the weekend. And if they all stopped coming because of the oil spill, I mean, the island would just dry up. If you’re a tourist town, you have to have tourists. Subsequently, it’s coming back as the word gets out that we’re OK and viable and the beach is good. [MUSIC PLAYING] MARLENE CHAPPELL:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...family and employers, and on 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. ['How to learn a language' digital badge]...Introduction and guidance:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...family think. But at another level our Western society and education has trained us all in certain ways of thinking. The two main kinds are logical thinking and causal thinking...Systems thinking and practice: 3.1 Logical thinking - The classic example of logical thinking is a form of reasoning which goes like this: ‘If all cows are animals, and this is a cow, then it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...history of antibiotics, what they are and how they work. You will learn how antibiotic resistance develops and spreads and look at the issues surrounding antibiotic resistance. Finally, you will look at some of the cutting edge ways that scientists are trying to tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance, from promoting good hygiene to developing new antibiotics from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...history, and internal dynamic, will, I am sure, constrain a victorious Jeremy Corbyn in a manner alien to Syriza. Turning to the first-past-the-post system, had it applied here in Greece, it would have given our party a crushing majority in parliament. It is, therefore, untrue that Labour’s electoral failures are due to this system. Lastly, allow me to urge caution with...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...history and the second highest viewed event of 2019. [woman in black tank top and black leggings doing yoga] While the profile of and demand for women’s sport has risen, stark gender inequalities still prevail in terms of investment, sponsorship, media coverage and pay (Farrer & Co, 2019), but also more broadly in society, in terms of participation in grass roots sport....
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