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What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...sustained a spirit of unity in the face of conflict with Muslim Arabs and Turks, and it was Pope Pius II – in the fifteenth century – who was the first to use the term ‘Europe’, in the title of a book (Neumann, 1999, p.44). It could hardly claim a single identity after the Reformation and the religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, for although...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...sustains a capability is not easy. Some obvious clues can be found in some of the definitions, of course. For example, in similar vein to Menguc et al.’s definition noted in Section 2, Teece (2014, p. 14) notes that ‘A capability is the capacity to utilise resources to perform a task or an activity, against the opposition of circumstances. Essentially, capabilities...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to ecosystems
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to ecosystems

...sustaining the ecosystem in the rock pool? Also think about how can this be extrapolated and applied to other ecosystems with variable physical environments. [Described image] Figure 3 A rock pool with examples of the organisms that you might find. The ‘shanny’ is also known as ‘the common blenny’...Week 1: What is an ecosystem?: 2.1 The rockpool - [Described...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...sustainable competitive advantage is to learn quicker than your opposition. So certainly in that context, I think there’s a challenge to policing to make sure that we do that. I think innovation is also fundamentally about making sure that we get the best from our single biggest resource, and that’s our people. I would say still, today, in policing, the capability and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...sustain learning. You will consider how the traditions and cultural practices of the community to which the family belongs filters through to the child’s experiences. In doing so you will think about why such influences may not have a uniform impact from family to family. You will also explore how learning is a two way experience for both children and their parents or...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...sustainable in the long run, as banking moves online. The bank is instead acting as an incubator of African fintech start-ups that come up with ingenious solutions to different problems. “Banks are in danger of becoming utilities”, says Edward George, Ecobank’s UK Country Head and Head of Group Research. “With utilities, you start providing services over a certain...
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Article 10 mins
Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...sustain itself in the current uncertain economic climate? The Newry and Mourne District Council’s Economic Development Strategy of 2009 stated that unemployment had been rising in the region since the start of 2008 and house prices corrected sharply in 2008 and 2009. The Strategy was concerned with the potential loss of jobs in the construction centre, the low skills...
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Article 15 mins
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...sustained urban conflict mainly involving young Muslim men, far right political groups, and the police across northern towns in England in 2001. Again there were competing accounts of why this 2001 unrest happened but mainstream policy and political responses were articulated around concerns as to the ethnic polarisations between White English and Pakistani English...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr