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Leadership and followership Badge icon
Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['Leadership and followership' digital badge]...Introduction and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...history of our brains is a continuous set of causes and effects moving from one brain state to another. But as our brain states determine what goes on in our minds, then what goes on in our minds is a continuous set of causes and effects. The succession of our ‘mind states’ is as causally inevitable as the succession of brain states. The appearance of a free choice is...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Health and safety in the laboratory and field
Science, Maths & Technology

Health and safety in the laboratory and field

...History of health and safety - The discipline of health and safety is relatively modern, only developing in the last century. However, throughout the ages people have voiced their concerns about people being exposed to harmful substances. Hippocrates mentions in the 4th century BC that lead miners and workers tended to suffer from diseases. The phrase ‘mad as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...history, applied linguistics was almost entirely concerned with one central research question: how do we best teach and learn languages? For political and commercial reasons, the focus was, in large measure, specifically on English. Today, however, applied linguistics (broadly defined) brings together research in a much wider range of areas, for example: law and criminal...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...family needs and space. Examples where the end customer is a business (B2B), include all the bespoke services, such as accounting services, or any other consultancy advice that it is unique and tailored to the needs of the end customer. Activity 2 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes. Watch the video presentation of GEOSENSE, an ICAERUS project partner and pioneer in...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The law-making process in England and Wales
Society, Politics & Law

The law-making process in England and Wales

...history, I’m also struck by the forest of microphones and the television cameras. It’s also a chamber that’s got a modern life and the means of communicating in a modern way. SARAH POLFREMAN: Audio recordings for radio started in the 1960s, but television came along in 1989, and we haven’t really looked back since. It’s very important that Parliament is seen to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...history, culture, the economy, social relationships and all the many other factors and trends that shape the world in which we find ourselves in today. Each context is different, and each context is endlessly changing. Development actors sometimes find it hard to know what to do about this. They tend to be working under considerable time pressure and may be expected to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Interviews - Writing For Radio
History & The Arts

Interviews - Writing For Radio

...family or whatever. They’re almost all contemporary, although not exclusively. And there’s a kind of real eclectic mix. And the ones that cut through are the ones that are doing something different. So quite a few of them are spinoffs from theatre plays whether they’re performed or not. Sometimes we see things that were written and developed for stage but didn’t...
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Audio 45 mins