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Manufacturing
Science, Maths & Technology

Manufacturing

...becomes the main raw material for the foundry or the steelmaker. The steelmaker turns the raw iron into steel sheet or bar. These steel products then go on to become the raw material for other manufacturers producing the enormous variety of useful products we see all around us; motor vehicles, domestic white goods (washing machines, refrigerators, etc.), wire coat...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...become slightly addicted to that thrill. And ever since that moment, I've just kept pushing the boundaries slightly further, and kept knocking on the doors a little bit harder and taking no for an answer less and less. And there's a direct linear link between organising that little fashion show in Edinburgh and creating this big event, where we've brought Bill Clinton to...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Scottish courts and the law Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish courts and the law

...become involved with the court system, the alternatives to courts that have evolved in recent decades and future advances that are being considered. You learn about the work of lawyers and the judiciary and explore how Scottish courts and tribunals operate in an open and transparent way working to ensure justice...This free course, Scottish courts and the law, explores...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...become widely accepted over the past few decades. Ramage and Shipp (2009) provide an overview of systems traditions and the different approaches to systems thinking. Each of these four perspectives are forms of systems thinking, in that they all look at whole systems and seek to understand the relationship between the parts and the whole, but they use these ideas subtly...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for an older family member with learning disabilities

...become ill or when you die); being worried about starting discussions about future care with the person you care for because it might be too difficult to understand and/or might upset them; or struggling with planning for a move to living somewhere else. This course will help you navigate the system and work out how to deal with some of the associated challenges of caring...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...become much more noticeable when you cough or develop a bout of hiccups. In fact, hiccups are caused by a spasm of the diaphragm and intercostal muscles in response to increased activity of the phrenic nerve and vagus nerve (which innervates the muscles of the abdomen). The spasms cause the floor of the thoracic cavity to drop suddenly, which pulls air quickly and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears
Health, Sports & Psychology

The MMR vaccine: public health, private fears

...becomes apparent that the MMR vaccine controversy rates very highly indeed on ‘fright factors’ compared with other types of risks that might, statistically, be more likely to occur. A scientific assessment of risk, which focuses on mathematical probabilities, often tends to ignore these ‘fright factors’, whereas public perceptions tend to prioritise them over...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Wilberforce
History & The Arts

Wilberforce

...become much more uneasy. Their fears were confirmed by the execution of Louis XVI in January 1793, and after the outbreak of war in the following month the French and above all the supporters of the Revolution tended to be demonised as enemies. Thereafter too the minority in Britain who continued to identify enthusiastically with the Revolution were liable to be labelled...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs