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Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...statistically speaking. The consequences of catastrophic events such as outbreaks of disease, nuclear accidents, war and conflict and outcomes of political upheaval and instability throughout the world are difficult to predict. So much so, that in industrialised (and typically Western) societies 'risk' and 'danger' have become synonymous and strongly associated with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...statistics presented in this Education in numbers infographic, produced for this course by The Open University. Think about: Which statistics surprise or shock you? What are the positive messages in these statistics? What do these statistics identify as challenges for education systems all over the world? What would be your priorities for change to education systems,...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...statistics say? Well, the Hampton Institute says that legacy applicants, that is those who have one parent, at least, in an elite school, have 45% more chances of being accepted into an elite school. What does that statistic mean to you? Your interpretation. Your choice. It's evenly split, but the point here is that you see differently. OK. Got it. We see differently. So...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...statistics to be passed on to the NHS Trust and to government departments. There is an increasing demand for such statistics: to measure the effective spending of public money; to monitor the success of health education campaigns; to look for trends in various conditions. Computerised patient information makes the collation of such statistics much easier. They may also...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...statistics: 2016 to 2017. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ statistics/ land-use-change-statistics-2016-to-2017. (Accessed: 7 February 2020). Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) (2019) Housing supply; net additional dwellings, England: 2017 to 2018. Available at: https://www.gov.uk/ government/ statistics/...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...statistics are true. And for many countries which jealousy guard their national sovereignty, that’s quite a difficult thing to accept and for many developing countries the capacity to monitor their emissions closely and to publish statistics every two years, for example, they don’t have that capacity, they don’t have that developed form of institution to do that. So...
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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...statistics, which suggest that children and young people in the United Kingdom are increasingly unhappy and that their wellbeing is potentially at risk. An article published in The Guardian (Weaver, 2019) suggested that children and young people in the UK are some of the unhappiest in the industrialised world. Activity 1 Is the wellbeing of children and young people in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Criminology beyond crime
Society, Politics & Law

Criminology beyond crime

...statistics and measurement as presented by science and government and incorporates social and cultural meanings of harm as defined by ordinary citizens. I mean, in these ways Green Criminology itself can be considered, as I said before, very much an evolving knowledge that challenges mainstream disciplinary discourses. I mean, it questions the moral and ethical basis upon...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs