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Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...student events of 1968, but also about the state of the nation from a New Left stance. British cinema, whether mainstream or amateur, has always reflected contemporary society but always engaged with its cultural and social values. It’s usually reinforced them, occasionally contested them but always provided an insight into the social history of the period, from the...
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Article 10 mins
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...students for their future? Davies and Ellison have identified ten key re-engineering trends for schools, which are summarised below. [Described image] Figure 1 Ten key re-engineering trends Many of these trends are beginning to show through already. Of course, these can be added to by each school as it sees fit. The contents of Every Child Matters, Extended Schools and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Getting started with SPSS
Society, Politics & Law

Getting started with SPSS

...students who are both new to statistics, and new to the software package SPSS. For many students statistics represent an area that they are concerned about, either because they have had little experience of statistics before, or due to concerns over the mathematics that might be involved. These interactive videos are designed to help you familiarise yourself with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...become ‘the national environment’? [Described image] Figure 1 The environment? A single tree in a field, a wooded area, the European area or the entire Earth Scale issues apart, the phrase ‘the environment’ also presents significant issues in terms of who is using the term and in what way. Is ‘the environment’ of one person the same as ‘the environment’ of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can a genetic mutation shared by many Brazilians help in the fight against cancer?

...becomes clear. Because of its vital role in quality control, David Lane nicknamed p53 ‘the guardian of the genome’. The gene itself is disabled by mutation or some other faulty mechanism in almost every case of human cancer. Most often this corruption of p53 occurs spontaneously in individual cells or tissues that have sustained some damage in the rough and tumble of...
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Article 10 mins
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...becoming increasingly complex and the roles demand high levels of knowledge and skills in practitioners and leaders. Aubrey (2018) uses the phrase ‘distributed leadership’, supporting the idea that early years provision is too demanding to be met exclusively by any one person. This suggests again that each member of the whole team, to a greater or lesser extent, has a...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...become a highly symbolic cause celebre for idealistic left-wing sympathisers from outside Spain. Orwell travelled to Spain as a journalist at the end of 1936. On arrival, however, he enlisted in an Independent Labour Party Republican unit and was sent to fight on the relatively quiet Aragon Front. He fought in Spain for six months before being badly wounded by a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...become ever more important. On top of this, the reasons behind attacks are becoming more diverse – ranging from financial gains and retaliations through to influencing political campaigns and disabling infrastructure. Anyone can be a victim of cyber-attacks. In this course, you’ll look at cyber security from the perspective of a computer user. Through a set of case...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs