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Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...free course, Empowering communities, discusses the most common forms of community empowerment, and explores the barriers to community empowerment and ways that these can be overcome. It will conclude by looking at crime and criminality: a particular challenge that can arise if communities are not sufficiently empowered and supported...This free course, Empowering...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...free course introduces basic ideas of probability. It focuses on dealing with uncertainty in a financial context and explores decision trees, a powerful decision-making technique, which can help you to simplify and formulate business decisions. The course also includes videos that introduce the key ideas and guide you through numerous examples...This free course...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Discovering development management
Money & Business

Discovering development management

...free course that sets out to build up the basic capacities for managing the multiple challenges of development – any development. It rests on the assumption that management is a political and ethical process, a matter of the use of power to bring about desired goals in contexts characterised by conflicts of interests, values and agendas. It is of relevance to managers...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...free course, Exploring family health, will provide an understanding of what is meant by socialisation. You will recognise how a family can learn and support good and poor health behaviours alongside government interventions, such as the 5 A DAY strategy. Identification of people with Alzheimer's disease is steadily increasing and you will consider key features and...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...free course, An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope, you will experience the study of minerals using a polarising microscope. While the study of minerals can involve electron or ion beam chemical analysis, the polarising microscope remains the prime tool for the study of rock thin sections and is the foundation of learning to recognise, characterise...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Marketing in the 21st Century
Money & Business

Marketing in the 21st Century

...free course, Marketing in the 21st century, offers a managerial perspective on how to deliver more effective marketing in an organisation, regardless of whether it is based in the private, public or non-profit sector. This is achieved through a variety of learning techniques, including case studies, videos, activities and group discussions. Supporting this learning,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...course, language skills are important. So part of the accommodation of new migrants into rural Welsh has been access to both English and Welsh classes, which have both helped in terms of integration within communities, but also widening opportunities for employment within the area. Activity 15: 15-minute neighbourhoods Timing: 15 minutes The ‘15-minute neighbourhood...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...free course, Young people's wellbeing, will examine the range of factors affecting young people's wellbeing, such as obesity, binge drinking, depression and behavioural problems...What do we mean by 'wellbeing' for young people? How is it shaped by social differences and inequalities, and how can we improve young people's mental and physical health? This free course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs