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Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...climate change in the early Tertiary, promoted the evolution of grasses, which in turn supported the spectacular rise of grazing mammals. It was perhaps the climate-driven change in vegetation that promoted our own evolution from tree-dwelling primates in late Cenozoic times. Global cooling as part of the initial descent into the Quaternary Ice Age caused retreat and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...climate change. Identifying types of entrepreneur and entrepreneurial venture Interviewee Type of entrepreneur / entrepreneurial venture Danny Quinn Julia Charles Dan Wright Catherine Bottrill Words: 0 Discussion We suggest that our interviewees fall into the following categories: Danny Quinn – social entrepreneur. He describes his business, Black Sheep, as a social...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...climate change and Covid. These are issues that you may be discussing amongst your friends and making decisions about personally or within your community, or that your politicians are making decisions about through national and international policies. Let’s take the example of this tweet from Donald Trump. There are a few simple ways to check information online and on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...Climate change Law and justice Roads and transport Words: 0 Comment Table 6 lists the main government departments with responsibility for the areas in question. It is worth noting that sometimes more than one department or agency will cover the same territory. Table 6 Suggested government departments and their areas of responsibility AREA OF RESEARCH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...climate change, religious and political conflict, resource depletion and over-population. Our collective unwillingness as human beings to address these challenges may prove our final downfall. But Anthropathology also challenges many assumptions about individual problems, for example, the view of mental health problems as caused primarily within families or by our own...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...climate change. In the words of New York Times journalist David Brooks, hurricanes such as Katrina ‘wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities’ (September 2005, quoted in Strolovitch et al., 2005, p. 1). In these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...climate change, race, gender, class. All of the key issues, problems, questions that you have about the world around you, Religious Studies addresses those - because religion is implicated in all those issues. Suzanne Newcombe, Lecturer in Religious Studies: Our society is really complicated. What you learn in Religious Studies is how to use the best tools to answer...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...climate change induced by human activity is likely to have major impacts on the planet, its physical environments, and its living organisms, including people. But all of these effects are so interdependent it is impossible to discover what the effects are likely to be by breaking the situation down. [Described image] Figure 5 Breaking situations down doesn’t always...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs