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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...cast into law. Whenever any organisation sets out and gathers information about people, steps must be taken to ensure that, firstly, the information really is needed for a valid purpose, and then that if any information is collected, it’s correct and is used appropriately. Data-protection legislation enacted in many jurisdictions requires all this, and, more generally,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...cast one vote), receive a share of the company’s profit in the form of dividends, and receive a share of any remaining capital or assets should the company be wound up. Preference shares (or preferred shares) typically do not give shareholders voting rights. However, these shares come with an advantage over ordinary shares in terms of dividend distribution. Preference...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency
Society, Politics & Law

Discovering disorder: young people and delinquency

...casts doubt on the claim that statistics are hard facts by showing how the ways in which crime statistics are defined and interpreted can alter the data. For example, there is no published figure for muggings until 1972, although the figures for muggings are then projected back to 1968. The 1968 figure, however, represents crimes which were not previously defined as...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...sand z, as in ciu-dad (city), car-ta (letter). Stops are much rarer and often simplified or weakened in colloquial speech, e.g. ac-to (act), sig-no (sign). In complex codas, the second consonant is always s, e.g. trans-crip-ción (transcription). It is interesting to note that while words such as vaho [ba-o] (mist), búho [bu-o] (owl) – where two adjacent vowels belong...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...cast-off uniforms or overalls which were considered unsuitable for the combat troops. Due to the lack of preparation for the war, some of the early African-American units were kitted out in old Union “Blues” – Civil War-era uniforms, dug out of the stores by an enterprising quartermaster. The men who wore those uniforms, the sons and grandsons of slaves, went off to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...cast in the referendum and to highlight some of the tensions associated with the UK as a multinational state – and England as a particular nation within it. By the end of this week, you will be able to: assess the arguments that London has a distinctive and determinant role within the economy and politics of the UK understand how the development of London affects the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Living psychology: animal minds
Health, Sports & Psychology

Living psychology: animal minds

...casts a piece of bread and positions itself in exactly the right place to deceive a fish. But is this deception learnt through trial and error? PROF. CECILIA HEYES Animals could certainly come to deceive through associative learning. In that case, they wouldn’t be deceiving with the knowledge that they leave the deceived with a false belief. They simply learn that if...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...cast in the role of the seducer and Carracci as the restorer of the arts to a new dignity. (Gombrich, 1966, pp. 100–1) ‘Decline’ after renaissance has been associated with both the Mannerist and Baroque styles which label the subsequent periods (Mannerism c.1510–20 to 1600; Baroque 1600–1750). In the following extract consider how one particular author, S.J....
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs