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A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...podcasts, here are links to two that focus on freelancing in the creative sector. They involve interviews with individuals talking about their own experiences as well as advice on key issues: Being Freelance Women who create...Week 1: What is a creative freelance career?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Liz Smith. It was first published in November...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...podcasts, as well. And I think, actually, it was really interesting to see members of my team, not necessarily myself, adapt to those new forms of technology and being able to capture academics and discussions purely online to create content that we needed for our website. So, I think, actually, what will be really useful for me is to really start to get my head around...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Exploring the history of prisoner education Badge icon
History & The Arts

Exploring the history of prisoner education

...mathematics. The same is true of learning extracts of the Bible by heart, as prisoners were forced to do. This did not necessarily mean they understood the meaning of what they had memorised, or that this equipped them to read other texts and reflect on them. Sometimes reflection was not the intention, as instruction was used as a tool for discipline – to make prisoners...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Everyday maths 1 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1 (Wales)

...mathematical calculations. The arithmetical average is better known as the mean average. There are other types of average, but we will focus on the mean here. Note: With data we talk about ‘data sets’, or sets of data. ‘Sets’ is just another word for ‘group’. So if we carried out a survey, we would have a data set. You’ll be familiar with the word...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Environment: treading lightly on the Earth
Nature & Environment

Environment: treading lightly on the Earth

...mathematical equations and assumptions to convert information that you provide about your home, travel, etc. into an approximate figure for your carbon footprint. The results provided by a carbon calculator can only be as good as the accuracy of the data, assumptions, equations and options within the model and the information entered into it. Carbon calculators have to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...mathematics, for example, or in the formulation of scientific hypotheses), they took their lead from seventeenth-century thinkers and scientists, notably Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke (1632–1704), in prioritising claims about the truth that were backed by demonstration and evidence. In his ‘Preliminary discourse’ to the Encyclopédie,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...mathematical methods, with a particular emphasis on equations that can be represented with a formula triangle. We have also explored some basic ideas about electricity in the context of the batteries that are needed to supply the power for portable IT equipment. Finally we have considered the issue of trust in information, and the way in which recent developments in IT...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...mathematically precise as in portfolio theory – but the idea is the same. The overall goal for the mapping should be kept in mind: that is, to provide risk information to the organisation’s policymakers. As always, the objective is to end up with a succinct report to give the senior management the input needed for them to produce an appropriate definition of corporate...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs