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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...social enterprises or start-ups looking for funding to sustain small-scale projects, campaigns, or a new product. Even individuals usually refer to P2P lending or crowdfunding to sustain small-scale projects. Crowdfunding has been very important in the music industry as well. If you have time, have a look at this story about crowdfunding in music...Organisations and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...social benefits deriving from science and technology. Due to this conflict, patent laws that are strong for protecting private interest are thus weak for protecting the public interest, at least initially. The protection of intellectual property rights by law may not be in the wider social interest...Software and the law: 3 IP rights: copyright, patents, marks and brands...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...interacting with others in real life, they're taking clues and signals from you as much as you are from them. So don't be afraid to ask people to repeat, speak more slowly, or clarify the meaning of specific words. If you don't understand something, don't nod out of politeness. Let people know. Get as much exposure to the language as possible-- podcasts, films, music....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...social services; sustainable programmes where activities and services are not over-dependent on the skills and time of a few key staff; opportunities for services that have a different ethos from school activities and present themselves as ‘teacher-free’ zones. Explore how your school is responding to one of these intiatives in Activity 4. Activity 4 It is outside the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...social justice in South Africa during the Apartheid struggle. Simon had a difficult time coming out to his parents, and while they claimed to support him they attempted conversion therapy by bringing him to various religious leaders and psychiatrists, when he started a relationship with a man. It wasn’t until both families discovered that they had made a suicide pact...
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Article 20 mins
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...interactions among lots of people engaged in an enormous range of activities. Activity 1 (exploratory) The soap used in a shower gel is usually made by reacting a fat (often a vegetable oil) with an alkali (a generic name for a type of chemical). In three minutes, write down as many things/people/activities as you can think of that are involved in getting a shower gel...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...social interaction as normal – which is likely to have also contributed to his increases in anxiety, depression, etc. and his metabolic changes. f.If the experimental conditions were to continue, Dyckhoff might be more likely to develop diabetes, suppression of the immune system, increased susceptibility to disease and depression. g.One way to reduce the effects would...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Social Research Institute, Dublin, the Michael Otto Professor of Sustainability and Global Change at Hamburg University and an Adjunct Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He has had visiting appointments at the Canadian Centre for Climate Research, University of Victoria, British Colombia, at the Centre...
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