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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...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...familial assistance to poor and vulnerable inner city children and young people. The organisation offered a mix of orthodox and unorthodox approaches to support: counselling, friendship, some (tailored) financial support and even massage therapy. The charity’s core offering was a drop-in centre model and by the time of its closure it had opened four such centres in...
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...
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...
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...history, dating back centuries across many different cultures. However, it is only in more recent times that games of chance have been analysed mathematically, with some very interesting and powerful mathematics developing as a result, in the area now known as probability theory. The correspondence between two 17th century French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre...
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...family...Design: 1.1 Design - Design is everywhere. Look around you, and consider the objects you see. For example, in my office I can see my computer, a telephone, a pen, a coffee mug, my sunglasses, a stapler, my wallet, my diary, a one pound coin, a postcard, carpet tiles, a desk, a chair, window blinds, a jacket, a radiator, a strip light, and much more besides. All...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...history. And we’ve done that knowingly. And so it’s absolutely right that governments must be held to account on how they are delivering against meeting their climate targets now. It’s also really important that we’re getting alongside some of our public institutions, helping them to collaborate with each other, finding connections to people to organisations who...
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...history. As the 1920s persisted the image of Glasgow became steadily worse. The new horror story was gang warfare. A combination of heavy policing and heavier sentencing broke the back of these fighting gangs by the start of the 1930s. But then, in 1936 came the event which totally damned Glasgow. And that was the publication of the novel "No Mean City". Listen to this....
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr