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Digital carbon footprints and remote working
Nature & Environment

Digital carbon footprints and remote working

...thinking approach, accounting for work-from-home (WFH) remote energy consumption alongside associated reductions in office energy requirements. The rapidly growing B-Corp certification is stricter in this respect, requiring companies to declare their remote worker energy consumption. This can be rather complicated from both technical and moral perspectives. In a video...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...think about your part in the many roles that teaching assistants can play. One interesting feature of the teaching assistant workforce is the extent to which it is overwhelmingly female. Why are women, especially many who are mothers, drawn to this work, and why are there so few men? This is one of the themes you will explore in this course. As with teachers and their...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...think about the source contained within the message itself and consider whose voice is present in the promotional message? What are they telling us about the brand? And from what position of authority? Sometimes, through the use of a simple voice-over, the source remains an absent presence – heard but not seen. Although, even here, marketers might use a recognisable...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...think there is a misunderstanding, and people don’t realize that it is all connected and all related. You can’t have the mural without the tag’ (Ferrari cited in Imam, 2012)...Visions of protest: Graffiti: 6 Graffiti as a form of popular protest - The following case study illustrates how graffiti has been used as an articulation of popular public protest. In 2010,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...system of parks, public gardens, and playgrounds, unusual in their number and variety, had a sympathetic allure in the gray, cool light, even to the spectator passing in a hurried hansom. They have not the unity of the Boston or Chicago parkways, and I will own that I had not come to Manchester for them. What interested me more were the miles and miles of
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Article 10 mins
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...think of this, as long ago as 1623, Wilhelm Schickard had built a simple calculator, but Babbage’s machine was far more elaborate and capable of performing complex calculations. Babbage was also perhaps the first person to realise that so long as a machine was correctly constructed it would produce tables to any level of accuracy without ever tiring or making an error....
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Article 15 mins
Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...systems were being installed a fish pass was incorporated to enable salmon to return to their spawning grounds. During this extensive phase of building work, the interpretation of the site for visitors was largely completed. A conscious decision was taken not to attempt to reconstruct the archaeological features of the tinplate works. Rebuilding was only undertaken for...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...Think about how CEG and WRL are similar and also different...Careers education and guidance: 2.2 What CEG can deliver for schools - In the Ofsted inspection framework for English schools, based on the five themes from Every Child Matters, CEG is part of the school's self-evaluation of how it helps young people ‘achieve economic well-being’. Some of the evidence for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs