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Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis
Society, Politics & Law

Question Time for Yanis Varoufakis

...think about Game Theory? Varoufakis: I shall have to disappoint you Roy {Editor’s note: Roy Bailey taught Varoufakis at Essex and advised on his PhD}. As I wrote in a New York Times op-ed, Game Theory was never relevant. It applies to interactions where motives are exogenous and the point is to work out the optimal bluffing strategies and credible threats, given...
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Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...think...This free course, Introducing computing and IT, provides a general overview of how digital technologies have come to dominate virtually every aspect of the modern world and some guidance on how to prepare for this digital life. It raises awareness of the importance of data security and online safety. It also provides an explanation of the internal structure and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...systems are constructed? Did you know that they underpin the majority of the managed data storage in computer systems? This free course, The database development life cycle, has been designed to give you an overview of the developmental lifecycle for a database system, explaining the importance of data analysis and highlighting how database development differs from...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Lord John Browne - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Lord John Browne - Stories of Change

...system inside-out, you know it politically, you know it industrially, just sketch out what you think might be a sort of scenario that would allow us to get out of this problem? RH: So I’ve always been a believer, number one, we have to reduce the costs of alternative energy, which means that we need to pile much more money into R&D to make that possible, because...
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Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...system to focus on group performance. Guidance from a think tank. Transforming teachers’ attitude towards giving comments from passiveness to positivity. Inviting a teaching-research officer to provide guidance. Now consider these two questions: To what degree do you feel there is a need to have a commitment from school leaders to provide support to enable and motivate...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses
Nature & Environment

Expert insight: Amazonian challenges and policy responses

...System and the challenges it faces...The Amazon has a long history of survival, why is it now threatened? Below you’ll find a series of articles that explore the Amazon System and its natural resources in more detail. Read about the interdependencies of these resources, and the effects of the actions taken by man. Is it too late to reverse the decline? What does the...
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By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire
Society, Politics & Law

By extending the remit of PCCs, the government is playing with fire

...system currently being rolled out by the Uk government, writes Jacqueline Baxter. ...[Illustration of Dads Army in fire fighter uniform] The UK government has proposed to extend the remit of Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to cover other emergency services, including fire and rescue. The system has been called a “failed experiment” by the Independent Police...
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What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?
History & The Arts

What was the impact of 'Spanish flu' on the armistice?

...thinks the first indications think they had was in the Royal Army Medical Corps, 1916, in the great camp at Etaples. “They were worried, they’d always been worried about infection in the First World War because in every previous war more soldiers had died of infection than had died of bullets or shell wounds. But the First World War they seemed to have got away with...
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