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What is a scientific model?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a scientific model?

...system of simple equations or perhaps quite complex equations into a computer programme and you can then set the programme to go to watch the interplay of the various factors that you’ve teased out as being important. So, for example, if you were trying to understand how the planets in the solar system move, then you would need to put in a mathematical description of...
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Is democracy a good thing?
Society, Politics & Law

Is democracy a good thing?

...thinking that democracy is unequivocally a good thing. But is it? Even Winston Churchill, who frequently spoke in favour of the system, stigmatized it as the worst form of government (apart from all the others that have been tried). The great Greek philosopher, Plato, was no fan of democracy. There are a couple of arguments he had against it which have a particular...
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Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...systems to be protected. Activity 1 Think of an organisation you know and the sort of information it may hold for business purposes. What are the particular responsibilities involved in keeping that information confidential? Answer Any sizeable organisation has information that needs to be kept secure, even if it is limited to details of the employees and the payroll. I...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...systems. The process of globalisation has disseminated free market capitalist orthodoxy – generally allied to democratic systems of government – throughout the world. With these processes has come growth in the environmental and social movements. Conventions on climate change, biodiversity and trade agreements, shaped by, among others, global rather than national...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
The drive to sustainability in Higher Education
Nature & Environment

The drive to sustainability in Higher Education

...systems. Sustainable campus initiatives Most HE institutions have established sustainability policies to manage campus buildings and site operations, for example, regarding building construction and operations, procurement processes, information and communication technologies (ICT) systems efficiency, pollution control, water and waste management, and campus design and...
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Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...thinking. And that means that our whole education system is going to have to shift from where it has been in the past towards helping people to develop those skill sets. It also means that lifelong learning is going to have to become the new normal if we are all to keep up with the changing nature of technology and the changing nature of work. So we need a big shift in...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Celebrating festivals from the past and present
History & The Arts

Celebrating festivals from the past and present

...think about ‘festivals’? Tents, muddy wellies, Woodstock, peace and love and alternative music, perhaps? Glastonbury might be synonymous with large tents, stages and sound systems built to weather the most tempestuous storms, but as a medieval town in southwest England, its history is far richer. Music festivals have certainly gained popularity in recent decades, but...
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Our sense of balance
Science, Maths & Technology

Our sense of balance

...system. Information from the vestibular system is proprioceptive in character. This means that it deals with sensory events arising from within the body rather than exteroceptive events (sensory events that occur outside the body). Our sense of balance arises from the proprioceptive system as a whole which includes sensory receptors located within muscles and joints as...
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