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Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...public policy […] is that so many of the most pressing problems are ones that cut across departments, cut across disciplines; issues like social exclusion, the environment, the family. [so ] My fifth point is about thinking systemically. (Geoff Mulgan; ex Demos, Director PIU, UK Cabinet Office) (Mulgan, 1998) … one of the more remarkable aspects of British debate is...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...health impacts of the Global North’s Shrimp Culture Project on the coastal regions of Bangladesh? And in the Uganda section of the video, what does Satyal suggest is needed to have more effective and equitable policy-making that will benefit the Batwa? What issues remain unaddressed? From what Huq says, why do you think CVF (Climate Vulnerable Forum) has moved from...
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Article 5 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...health and personal relations. In 2011, there were two stories that both caused widespread public debate about the risks involved; the Fukushima nuclear reactor melt down following the earthquake and tsunami, and the motorway (M5) pile-up in the UK, originally thought to have been caused by bonfire smoke but later evidence proved that it was thick fog. In the past, such...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...health. Available at: https://olympics.com/en/news/sport-positive-impact-mental-physical-health-benefits Norton, S. and Dalrymple, R. (2020) Enhancing Graduate Employability: A Case Study Compendium. Available at: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/Compendium-of-case-studies-published-to-enhance-graduate-employability Williams, S., Dodd, L., Steele. C. and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd
History & The Arts

Exploring Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd

...public centre, Casterbridge, to try to get a job at the hiring fair. Then he walks from Casterbridge towards the location of the next hiring fair but ends up instead in Weatherbury. At the end of the novel, there are two important bleak walks in the opposite direction, from Weatherbury, the little world of the novel, to the public institutional world of Casterbridge, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...publication. He is also the founder and chair of the IEA Energy Business Council, which provides a forum to enhance co-operation between decision-makers in the highest levels of government and industry. Dr. Birol’s selection as IEA Executive Director marked one of the rare occasions that the head of an international organisation has been selected from within its ranks....
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Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...public eye. Last year Rufu, Aharonson and Perets presented their results for simulations they ran into the feasibility of this hypothesis and generated an eloquent visual representation of the process. The hypothesis states that a sequence of bodies, between the Moon and Mars in size, impacted the early-Earth in several million-year intervals, generating debris disks that...
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Video 15 mins
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...publication of her verses led to appointments as magazine editor which brought some measure of financial independence. Caroline left her abusive husband in 1836, leading her husband to sue her friend Lord Melbourne, the then Whig Prime Minister. While the jury disregarded the claim, Caroline was unable to divorce her husband and banned form seeing her sons. Caroline's...
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Article 15 mins