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Introducing Union Black
Education & Development

Introducing Union Black

...intelligence, cultural awareness, communication, leadership and teamwork. Engaging with the course will contribute to building skills, including empathy, understanding anti-racism, understanding different cultures, diversity, inclusion and allyship – increasingly ‘essential’ in job descriptors and promotion criteria. Who is this course for? [A photograph of the four...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Network security
Digital & Computing

Network security

...intelligence agencies appear to want over Internet communications, I think is illusory, it's simply unachievable. Winifred Robinson (Presenter) The new Act will mean millions of bytes of information sent through the Internet will be stored, but how? Casper Bowden The black boxes themselves really don't do anything more than what a technician would call a packet sniffer....
Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...intelligent non-specialists. They need to understand what you are talking about in language that is not overly complex, that actually relates to the real world decisions they have to make. You also need to present information in ways which can be comparable with the other issues that they have to deal with, so imagine you are providing some information on some particular...
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...intelligent, connected wardrobe, and importantly, for fashion and technology coming together. Of course, we still don't all own one of those either. So what about the invisibility cloak? Long a fantasy of folklore and fairy tale, it's also been a massive part of modern day literature and film, including the likes of Harry Potter. Now while we don't own one of those...
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...Intelligence, an online background screening organisation based in the USA, defines what is inappropriate: ‘“Inappropriate” can mean a variety of things ‘At Social Intelligence, we categorize flagged content into four broad filters: intolerance, violence (including threats), potentially illegal activity, and sexually explicit content. Additionally, any type of...
Can renewable energy sources power the world? Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Can renewable energy sources power the world?

...artificial sources of warmth and illumination. Technologies for harnessing the power of the Sun, firewood, water and wind continued to improve right up to the early years of the Industrial Revolution, but by then, the advantages of coal, the first of the fossil fuels to be exploited on a large scale, had become apparent. These highly concentrated energy sources soon...
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...intelligence. By way of further example, if you were born into a poor family you would be more likely to remain poor and die earlier (Marmot, 2008). If you are a young Black or disabled person in your early twenties in the UK, you are more than twice as likely not to be in employment, education or training (NEET) as young white and non-disabled people (EHRC, 2010). There...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...artificial fertilizers must be used down river in the valley. Without the yearly supply of sediment in floodwater, the banks of the Nile are eroding downstream of the dam, and the Nile delta is reducing in size; the erosion by wave action no longer being counteracted by a fresh supply of sediment...Surface water: 3.4.6 Soil salinization - The change from annual flooding...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs