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Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...history and the development of human civilisations. However, until about half a century ago, retailers were at the end of the supply chain and their key function was to sell products offered by manufacturers. Retailers had some influence on the products made but much emphasis was placed on pushing (selling) manufactured goods. But a new approach to business emerged which...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...history as an academic subject focuses on time and how things change or don’t across time economics as an academic subject focuses on the distribution of resources. Regarding IR, the core focus is ‘the international’, meaning the challenges and dynamics that arise from having multiple societies coexisting and interacting with each other. These interactions are often...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...history existed only in the oceans. The presence of water, then, appears to be a requirement for life to survive and thrive, at least in the forms found on Earth. The history of the Earth also indicates that global temperatures, while varying considerably, have virtually always stayed within a range suitable for life and to maintain oceans. What factors have helped...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...history of western thought, the imagination has been seen as performing such a wide range of different functions that it is problematic whether it can be understood as a single faculty at all. In imagination we are able to think of what is absent, unreal or even absurd, and so it appears to grant us almost unlimited conceptual powers. Yet it also seems to inform our...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...history of humanity. (MacArthur, 2015) In 2010, she set up the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, the world’s leading proponent of the circular economy. [Described image] Figure 17 (a) Ellen MacArthur celebrating after becoming the fastest person to circumnavigate the globe single-handed; (b) Dame Ellen MacArthur delivering a TED (technology, entertainment and design) talk on...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...family life and other commitments. An apprenticeship is a job with a formal programme of training which meets the requirements of the Apprenticeship Standard (in England) or Apprenticeship Framework (in Wales). The time distributed to this training can vary between programmes. The planned training hours will be detailed in your Training Plan once you start the programme....
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...families, there is a need to develop a bank of illustrative narratives. She will need skills associated with interviewing, helping the patients to tell their stories in a clear and coherent way. She may need to edit the audio tapes to enable the patient journey to be understood. But patients will have to develop their storytelling abilities, too. They have been used to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...families with household income less than a certain amount; “a specific place and time”: that is, the measurement applies to a certain place at a certain time. Measurements may change across space and/or time, which allows us to make comparisons across them. Typically, we might compare measures made at different locations at the same time, or at different times for the...
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Video 45 mins