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Sounds of environmental change
Society, Politics & Law

Sounds of environmental change

...Children and dogs play on Bream Cove Waves from the cliffs, Beagle's Point Sound of seagull flying over Harwich beach, Essex The composer and sound recordist R. Murray Schafer developed a way of categorising sounds and you may recognise some of the sounds presented here as what he called ‘Keynote Sounds’, which exist in the background and are not normally noticed...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles Figure 8: Neurons in ‘Golgi stained’ brain tissue (drawings by Santiago Ramón y Cajal): (a) Santiago Ramón y Cajal / public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Purkinje_cell_by_Cajal.png; (b) Santiago Ramon y Cajal / public domain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cajal_cortex_drawings.png Figure...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...centred approach to planning, draws on the Future Generations Commissioner’s resources and introduces you to ‘recognised’ approaches. These methodologies will help you understand the needs of your organisation to evolve their ways of working, particularly in hybrid working and digital transformation. It is part of the Supporting hybrid working and digital...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...centres on the commercial interests of lead organisations and its partners. However, challenges between partners can sometimes develop (e.g., Coca-Cola, one of the football World Cup’s bigger and long-standing partners, criticised FIFA for its handling of the investigation into corruption over the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 men’s tournaments). It could be...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...centre in the brain called the hypothalamus and makes you feel hungry (Figure 1). [Described image] Figure 1 How the hormone ghrelin acts on the body If you measure ghrelin levels in the blood, they are high just before a meal and then drop steeply after eating. It may be ghrelin that causes your stomach to rumble when you are hungry. When your stomach is full, ghrelin...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC) the pattern between 2009-2019 was of the cost of rail growing roughly twice as much as people’s earnings (TUC, 2019a). The TUC also showed in 2019 that the shareholders of rail companies in the UK were paid dividends of more than £1bn between 2013-2019, while passengers in the UK paid a far greater percentage of their monthly...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...research into the kind of errors which tend to be made. This has resulted in some important insights for candidates: First impressions matter and the first answers you give are critical. This is because interviewers tend to form a view about candidates within the first four minutes, and might discount any other information that counters this. Negative information about a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs