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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...migrations, climate change, the Arab Spring, the crisis of the European Union and the rise of populism across all of the political spectrum are only a few examples of very different, but disruptive events that have happened in the last ten years of human history. And more will come. In this course, you will explore leadership in these turbulent times as the world...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...migrate from the oceans onto the land, that would still have happened. However, some scientists calculate that having such a large satellite as the Moon has kept the Earth’s spin axis relatively stable over geological time so that extremes of climate here have been much less than those suffered by Mars. If that’s important for life, then we should be grateful to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...migrate across the basin. Of course, the opposite of this is that presently separated continental masses that have nearly identical fossil fauna assemblages must once have been united (e.g. southern India, South Africa and Antarctica, which were once united as Gondwana, Figure 3)...Geological processes in the British Isles: 4.6 Continental collision - It should be clear...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...migrating upstream past the entry point of the heated effluent...Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment: 7 Biological pollutants - Biological pollutants are organisms that may be harmful to other forms of life, but they have to be ingested to have any effect. The most usual form of transmission is the faecal–oral route, in which faecal matter from one human...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...migration of young people. That is partly driven by access to suitable employment opportunities. It's partly driven by access to affordable housing. It's partly driven by a wish to experience the wider world, to live in a more urban place and the cultural opportunities that affords. But as we start drilling down into that group of younger people, we also see that there...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...migration patterns. To avoid such problems, when heated water is returned to rivers after being used for cooling (in power stations, for example), there should always be a minimum flow in the river to dissipate the heat sufficiently and so keep the temperature rise to only a few degrees...Understanding water quality: 3 The extent of water pollution - Water may become...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introducing mammals
Nature & Environment

Introducing mammals

...migrating to the upper part of the cell. The fat droplet, itself wrapped in a membrane, merges with the cell membrane and is ‘budded-off’ – fat droplet plus its enveloping membrane – into the lumen. [Described image] Figure 17d (repeated) A secretory cell from a mammary gland...Introducing mammals: 5.2 Lactation in marsupials - Production of milk involves...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...Migration – as a consequence of the use of force and the threat to security attached to it, many people become refugees or internally displaced persons. What about protection of such persons? Should the burden of protection rest on the intervening party? Do human rights obligations apply extraterritorially? Liability for human rights violations committed during...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs