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Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...family as the annual mileage recorded for his car is in the region of 10 000 miles or approximately 16 000 kilometres. This suggests that the car is responsible for not 1.4 but around 1.9 litres of the 4 litres of crude oil each of the three people in the household might be expected to consume each day. (You may like to check this calculation for yourself.) These are very...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...history, set up strategies to cope with mathematics and assess which areas need improving understand the following mathematical concepts, through instruction, worked examples and practice activities: reflecting on mathematics; reading articles for mathematical information; making sense of data; interpreting graphs and charts draw on a technical glossary, plus a list of...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...history in order to detect suspicious activity. By following the link below or finding your own resources, identify how a credit report can indicate the key warning signs of identify fraud. How to spot the warning signs of identity fraud (Experian, 2018) (Open the link in a new tab or window by holding down Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) when you click on it). Feedback The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...family went to live at a place called Croft, in Yorkshire. He went first to a private school in Yorkshire and then to Rugby, where he spent years that he always remembered as very happy ones. In 1850 he went to Christ Church, Oxford, and from that time till the year of his death he was inseparably connected with "The House," as Christ Church college is generally called,...
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Article 10 mins
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...history of world prosperity over the past couple of hundred years dependent on fossil fuels. I mean that is really an incredibly difficult and ambitious task these people here are trying to undertake. MJ: There’s been an important change over the last two or three years in our understanding of what acting on climate change means. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
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Audio 5 mins
Understanding operations management
Money & Business

Understanding operations management

...history of the changing nature of operations in a manufacturing context, but emphasises that the operations function is significant in all types of organisation, whether they produce goods or provide services, and whether they are in the private, public or voluntary sectors. This course presents a process model of operations that describes inputs being transformed into...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...history of undertaking projects probably already have a PMO or an equivalent. This section initially takes the approach of designing a PMO, so we can think about what project managers and project teams want from the PMO. The PMO also has responsibilities to the organisation, which should not be dismissed. The first question is whether a PMO is needed at all. A PMO is...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...families. In a campaigning organisation with a ‘green’ outlook a high-level objective might be to encourage the public to reduce their dependence on the private motor car. Activity 4 Think of a group of which you are a member; it could be any group such as a group where you work, your family or a club. Write down three to five high-level objectives you think such a...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs