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Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...account of the relationship between imagination and creativity. But in section 2 of his paper he offers an analysis of the notion of imagination, which we will look at here. Activity 5 Read the introduction to Gaut's paper and then section 2, entitled ‘Imagination’. You should read the whole section at least once through first, and then consider each paragraph more...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...account with a bank deposit of the size of the mortgage. At that moment, new money is created. (McLeay, Radia and Thomas, 2014 p. 16, bold in the original) If you would like to read more about how money is created, you can find details of the article cited in this video, ‘Money creation in the modern economy’, in the References section...Organisations and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...accounts, and you’re all members of the club. And we have a little sort of billboard thing, and we’ve got a computerised billboard, and you can do an hour of babysitting for somebody else, and you get a credit of an hour, or you can receive an hour of babysitting from someone else and you get a kind of debit of an hour. And I’m going to keep the accounts and we’ve...
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Article 5 mins
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...accountable for the quality of your work? Robyn Firstly, I am accountable not only for my own quality of care that I provide, but for all my junior staff who I manage. To ensure that they are providing high standards of care, I do monthly quality assurance to promote the standards of care so I do things like monthly spot checks, auditing concerns, complaints, compliments...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...accounted for by mortgages. Debts such as these are known as secured debt, meaning that the amount owed is secured against assets – in this case houses – which can be ‘repossessed’ and sold by the lender if repayments are not made by the borrower. Debts that are secured on housing are known as mortgages. Other types of debt are known collectively as unsecured...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Early modern Europe: an introduction
History & The Arts

Early modern Europe: an introduction

...account by Richard Pococke, an English visitor to Venice on Ascension Day (the Christian festival marking the day when Christ is believed to have ascended into heaven) in 1734. (Figure 1 shows the ceremony in 1730.) There are some unfamiliar words here. The Doge was the elected ruler of Venice, and the procurators were officials of the city. The Pope’s nuncio was a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network
Nature & Environment

Climate threat as grave a risk as nuclear war - Climate News Network

...account what we are doing to the climate, how it may respond, what that could do to us, and what we might then do to each other. The authors’ best guess, based on current policies and trends, is that greenhouse gas emissions will keep going up for another few decades, and then either level off or slowly decline. “Uncertainty is not our friend. There is much more scope...
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Article 10 mins
Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda
Society, Politics & Law

Goal-setting for a better world: Millennium Development Goals and Post-2015 Development Agenda

...accountability systems put in place, and human capacities built. In conclusion... Despite the challenges in goal-setting and assessment of progress made, MDG’s have helped galvanise global effort towards tackling many of our world’s major environmental/social issues. It is sincerely hoped the post 2015 development agenda will have learnt from its predecessor and will...
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Article 5 mins