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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...Statistics Agency) [PHONE RINGING] ETIENNE LAMY-SMITH (occupation: AFP Journalist) I started learning Mandarin in order to do a job that I was already doing, but in a different country. And having learnt the language to a level where I could be conversational, I was then able to get exactly the job I wanted. As a journalist, it’s very important to be able to understand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...Statistics 2017/18 England and Wales. London: Youth Justice Board...Session 2: Youth justice in England and Wales: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Rod Earle. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...Statistics (2010), there are 1.5 million people in the UK caring for a relative or friend with a mental health problem or dementia. There is an increasing emphasis on the role of family caregivers in supporting recovery for people in mental distress. The course is of value to all carers. Carers for people with mental health problems can include people looking after a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...Statistical Office of the European Communities. Pfeiffer, R. and Goffin, K. (2000) ‘Getting the big idea’, The Engineer, 4 February, pp. 22–3. Plender, J. (2001) ‘The limits of ingenuity: the supply of new financial instruments is diminishing, with potentially serious consequences for the world’s capital markets’, Financial Times, 17 May. Rogers, E. (2003)...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to Planetary Protection
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to Planetary Protection

...statistical risk of contamination is negligible. Reduction of contamination can occur in two ways: pre-launch in clean rooms, and during missions, using radiation exposure in the space environment...Introduction to Planetary Protection: 4.3.1 Pre-launch sterilisation - As you have already learned, bioburden reduction is considered from the beginning of a mission....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...Statistical Office of the European Communities, 2005, p. 46) While on a more technical level this definition might be suitable, a simpler and much more effective definition of innovation was suggested by Ekvall (1997) who asserted that at its simplest, innovation is really just: a creative idea that has been brought to application. (Ekvall, 1997, p. 195). The ‘creative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...Statistical Office of the European Communities. Penrose, E.T. (1959) The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, New York, Wiley. Prahalad, C.K. and Hamel, G. (1990) ‘The core competences of the corporation’, Harvard Business Review, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 79–91. Reichert, F., Beltrame, R., Corso, K., Trevisan, M. and Zawislak, P.A. (2011) ‘Technological capability’s...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...statistically representative, participants are selected to form a cross-section of the population based on factors such as age, gender, education, area of residence and interest. There were over 400 applicants to serve on the panel for the first UKNCC, of which 16 were selected by a steering committee. The lay-panel members became ‘informed’ about plant biotechnology...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs