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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...trouble, cost and physical difficulty of taking measures to avoid that risk. Normally a variety of calculations are used to decide what is practicable. These are not covered in this course, but would generally include an economic assessment of reducing a risk against accepting the risk, and use an equation linking the severity of a risk and its likelihood. When it comes...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Teaching secondary science
Education & Development

Teaching secondary science

...troubles and was largely regarded as a quack until Marshall went freshman on a glass of Helicobacter pylori. In other words, suggesting ulcers were caused by anything other than stress was career suicide. Regardless, both Marshall and Warren continued with their research and although the pair managed to cultivate Helicobacter Pylori they couldn’t make it cause stomach...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...troubling gap between the popular image of the library of Alexandria and the limited reliable evidence that we actually possess. Each of the library’s key features is shown to rest on questionable historical foundations, not least the idea that it housed a ‘universal collection’; Bagnall argues that it is implausible to imagine a library housing the vast numbers of...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...trouble. It saves prime ministers worrying. That’s the way with politics… Here we are, about to make the wrong decision again. (Stanford, 2014)...Section 2: Ongoing issues for devolved government: 2 A separate legal jurisdiction - A legal jurisdiction is the authority given by law to a court to try cases and rule on legal matters within a particular geographic area....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...trouble. There is no point in having a meeting to discuss this because the antagonisms within the department will dominate the situation and there are too few people interested in changing that. I am being investigated by the Inland Revenue because my accountant made an error in calculating the dividend I received from the business last year. The understanding of life is...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Making social media work in Higher Education
Education & Development

Making social media work in Higher Education

...trouble. Step away from the social media and give yourself time to think before making any response. 3. Take Screenshots: messages can be deleted and if you think you might want to report the bullying now or in the future it is best to take a screen shot and save the photos to a folder that you do not routinely look at. This will mean you are not reminded of them but have...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Investigating a murder with forensic psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Investigating a murder with forensic psychology

...trouble getting access to the house, and that if I was having trouble getting in, that I could use her drive to get access around the back. She also said, had I tried dad’s mobile? Which I hadn’t. I didn’t even know that he had a mobile, so I was a bit surprised by that. I mean, I kind of knew that he had a mobile, but I didn’t think he ever had it switched on....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...trouble with the term managing is that it has come to be associated with the work of those whose job title includes the designation 'Manager' or 'Director' or 'Executive'; somebody with identifiable seniority. As a result many people think that managing is something a bit different, special even – and certainly not what they do. This feeling occurs even when the...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs