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Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit
Society, Politics & Law

Why the economy can't explain Trump or Brexit

...code (average population around 30,000 in this data). The share of white Americans rating Trump 10 out of 10 rises from just over 25 percent in locales with no ethnic change to almost 70 percent in places with a 30-point increase in Latino population. The town of Arcadia in Wisconsin – fittingly a state that has flipped to Trump – profiled in a recent Wall Street...
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‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS
Society, Politics & Law

‘A little bit of kindness’: migrant nurses in the Scottish NHS

...code, and this required them to provide financial compensation to the country of origin, if they actively recruited their qualified staff. This code also included equal rights for migrant workers in terms of pay, training and professional development, which made recruiting from abroad very costly (Mackintosh, Raghuram and Henry 2006). Many overseas nurses’...
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An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...Code of Practice for Health and Adult Social Care on the Prevention and Control of Infections and Related Guidance helps NHS bodies plan and implement how they prevent and control HCAIs (Department of Health, 2009). It states that there is a duty to provide and maintain a clean and appropriate environment for healthcare; the Department of Health has produced a set of...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...code. As a good example take a look at the ‘Guidance on Risk’ set out by the UK’s Engineering Council (2011). The guidelines are as follows: Apply professional and responsible judgement and take a leadership role. Adopt a systematic and holistic approach to risk identification, assessment and management. Comply with legislation and codes, but be prepared to seek...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...simple information displays, which let us check things such as weather forecasts and transport timetables, to interactive sites that allow us to make bookings or queries. In many parts of the world, medical records are increasingly moving away from paper and X-ray film towards becoming completely digital. This has several advantages, especially in allowing patient records...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...simple tasks as remembering a phone number. Pronunciation improves listening. The mouth teaches the ear. Learning pronunciation “in the mouth” improves discrimination “in the ear”. According to a behaviourist view of language learning, the ear teaches the mouth so that listening comes before speaking, but the reverse is also true. Students of languages become...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...code for design software in their spare time. The group demonstrated a cobbled-together revision of what was to become AutoCAD® at an exhibition in March of the same year. The product was finally launched formally in December and was an instant success. By 1987, 100,000 copies of the application had been sold and, by 1999, 2 million. The reasons for AutoCAD's success...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more
History & The Arts

Canals: The Making of a Nation - Find out more

...simple: build a tunnel. He was consulting engineer for the pioneering Standedge tunnel on the Huddersfield narrow canal – at over 5km long and 200m above sea level, it’s still the both the longest and highest canal tunnel in the UK, and one of the so-called seven wonders of the waterways. Given the technology and understanding at that time, it was an extraordinary...
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