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Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...statistics on mobile phone usage in the UK. Their report for May 2008 (Text.it, 2008) shows that in the whole of that month: 16.5 million people accessed the internet from their mobile phones 6.5 billion SMS (text) messages were sent both of these figures showed a considerable increase from previous years. In December 2008, the equivalent figures were 17.4 million and 7.7...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...statistics of testicular cancer survival from a rare chance up to the 1970s to around a 90% survival rate today. But the discovery of their efficacy is one of serendipity. The videos that follow throughout this course summarise the history and development of these drugs, with interviews with key players in the field. In the first video, you will meet Barnett Rosenberg...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...statistical – the error rate increases with increasing pulse spreading. The simple model of allowing spreading by up to half a symbol interval is adequate for order-of-magnitude considerations, however. The main causes of pulse spreading differ between multimode and single-mode fibre, and will be considered next...Digital communications: 2.4.1 Multimode distortion -...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Coaching neurodivergent athletes
Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching neurodivergent athletes

...statistics. Graduates from university with autism have the lowest employment rate. Only 7% of graduates with autism get jobs, full-time jobs. It’s unbelievable. It’s the lowest for anyone with a disability. And we thought, yeah, we’ll send him to university, challenge everything. We went. He should go. That’s how we actually thought. And then, as I told you...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...Statistics provided by the Office of Rail Regulation, online at www.rail-reg.gov.uk [accessed 18 June 2009]). Bearing these figures in mind, it would seem that the result of the government's initiative might be that more rail workers would be likely to be killed in the course of installing and maintaining the additional system. It really is not clear whether the overall...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Statistics (2013) reported that 22.7 per cent of the UK population was considered to be at risk of poverty or social exclusion. This is equivalent to 14 million people. The majority of service users that social workers work with experience some form of social exclusion and poverty. In order to support these service users effectively, it is necessary to identify factors...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...statistical, graphic and tabular data to test the generalisations and suggestions made by Moïsi and Judt in the light of recent EU developments. See if you can find evidence, for example: to support the contention of Moïsi that a spectacular change in British attitudes to Europe was taking place during Tony Blair's tenure as prime minister; to see if the UK population...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...Statistics which was regarded as the sort of quality assured. The only challenges with that was that it was often two or three years out of date by the time we were using it. In terms of things like PISA, for example, obviously many of the countries DFID works in they don’t have PISA. And also they can be quite controversial these international comparisons, particularly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs