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Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...de Colle, S. (2010) Stakeholder theory: The state of the art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Grant, R. M. (2016) Contemporary Strategy Analysis: Text and Cases, 9th edn, Chichester, West Sussex, Wiley. Guilmartin, J. F. (2024) 'unmanned aerial vehicle', Encyclopedia Britannica. Available at: https://www.britannica.com/technology/unmanned-aerial-vehicle (Accessed:...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...de lait, which encouraged mothers to breastfeed, gave out free milk to those that could not, and provided free regular medical examinations to check on babies’ development. Charities also provided free meals to pregnant women and the mothers of small children. To improve the health of older children, municipal authorities set up school canteens to provide free and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...de-motivation, despair and self-defeat that result from a ‘culture of poverty’. As the third and fourth quotations suggest, Mead was not persuaded by the standard explanations for dependency. To him, the main cause of poverty ‘is no longer social injustice but the disorders of (dependants’) private lives’ (Mead, 1997, p. 15). This view is echoed by some...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Blood and the respiratory system
Science, Maths & Technology

Blood and the respiratory system

...De-oxygenated blood from the systemic tissues is carried to the lungs by the pulmonary arteries and has a PO2 of 40 and a PCO2 of 45 millimetres of mercury. As the blood enters the alveoli, the higher PO2 in the lungs drives oxygen shown in red out of the alveoli and into the blood. At the same time, the slightly higher PCO2 in the blood drives carbon dioxide, shown in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
10 years of The Bottom Line
Money & Business

10 years of The Bottom Line

...de-regulated online currency; but TripAdvisor and social recommendations - and the implications, both positive and negative, for all types of businesses - seem to be sticking around for the long term. Wearable technology is one of the big developments at the moment, but will it translate to the mainstream or stay strictly for the geeky gadget- fan niche? Apps are booming...
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Nine days' wonder in York
History & The Arts

Nine days' wonder in York

...de Clifford, who suffered death with his party chief, the Earl of Lancaster, when Edward of York took the city, and it is mainly memorable as the refuge of the Jews whom the Christians had harried out of their homes. They had grown in numbers and riches, when the Jew-hate of 1190 broke out in England, as from time to time the Jew-hate breaks out in Russia now, to much the...
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EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...wrote: ‘Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte_’._ –Blaise Pascal, Provincial Letters, Letter XVI, December 1656. Translation: ‘I wrote this very long [letter] because I didn’t have the time to make it shorter’. What do you think Pascal meant by this? [Photo of Claire]Figure 8 ClaireShow descriptionA photograph of Claire. Claire, whose research looks for evidence of......
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Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...de Michelis, G., Simone, C. and Schmidt, K. (eds) Proceedings of ECSCW’93, the 3rd European Conference on Computer-Supported Co-operative Work, pp.77–92, Kluwer (Academic Press), Netherlands. Bernstein, B. and Solomon, J. (1999) ‘Pedagogy, identity and the construction of a theory of symbolic control’, Basil Bernstein questioned by Joseph Solomon, British Journal...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs