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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...statistics Timing: Allow approximately 5 minutes The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (2015) Growth Dashboard shows the trends in a number of STEM occupational categories. It says that ‘in 2013, 32 per cent of vacancies were classified as skills shortage vacancies; an increase from 2011 levels’ (p. 32). On page 29 of the dashboard there is a breakdown of...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes Data minimisation Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed Accuracy Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
An introduction to social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to social work

...statistics; however, insofar as social workers work with people who appear to be largely disadvantaged by such societal forces, understanding how these forces may affect individuals becomes a key concern for social work. This understanding then becomes integral to an approach that seeks to be anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive...An introduction to social work: 1.3...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...statistically significant). However, the important result is that the change from 10 per cent to 90 per cent relatedness does not produce the large increase in the priming effect observed in the 1 second condition. The small increase from 7 per cent to 9 per cent was not statistically significant. It can be concluded that participants were unable to guess in the brief...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Social problems: Who makes them?
Society, Politics & Law

Social problems: Who makes them?

...statistical data or other sorts of information, they nevertheless raise the possibility in different ways. Gilder's argument that ‘to escape poverty’ the poor need to keep their families together could be tested against some sort of empirical evidence: for example, is there evidence that families with divorced or separated parents are unable to ‘escape’ poverty?...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...statistics office. Over that time, Ziegert, the estate agent, estimates that the city needs to build 20,000 new homes per year. The number of homes completed in 2015 was 10,722; over the three years before, the average was fewer than 7,000. This scarcity has helped drive recent price gains. According to Ziegert, average prices for prime property (the top 5 per cent of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...statistical analyses in a format accessible to non-specialists (if accurately compiled). Perhaps, just as importantly, infographics draw on the techniques of visual artists in their use of colour, shape and figurative content. As a visual art form, they have the potential to affect our emotions in the same way that visual art can, heightening the impact of the message...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...statistical analyses or visualisation techniques) Data visualisation (e.g. tabular, reports, dashboards). Different domains will have different challenges and needs with respect to a framework. For example, in forestry management, data will often come from multiple sources. Drones provide just one of the sources of data, which can include other digital methods and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs