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Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...in people’s lives and livelihoods...Week 1: What is a development intervention?: 2 The nature and range of interventions - The diversity of development interventions is truly mind-boggling. A recent article described it thus: “Intervention” describes a deliberate involvement in a process or system intended to influence events and/or consequences. The term may refer to single activities but often refers to sets of ......
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Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...2: An introduction to brewing: Introduction - This week you will learn how beer is made. You will first look at the basic components of a beer and see what each of them brings to the development of a beverage. You’ve already met yeast briefly in the first week of this course. This week you will look at the other components – water, hops, barley and malt – and see...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...2 Discussion Did you find all these labels? Spastic, retard, imbecile, special needs, learning disability, mentally defective, mentally deficient, mentally challenged, autistic, weird, cheeky, trouble-maker, service-user, a learning-disabled person, mongoloid, learning difficulties, feeble-minded, disabled. No one chose their label. Shaun quite liked ‘cheeky’ and...
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...2 and 4) appreciate the role of African politics and institutions in shaping how Chinese investments in oil play out (Session 2) assess the wider impacts of Chinese oil engagement on African growth and development (Sessions 3 and 5) appreciate the complex policy choices available to African governments in managing their oil (Sessions 2, 3 and 5)...Session 1: The rise of...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...2 Jim Jim is finding that his work as a carpenter is affecting his health. He is beginning to think that he should find a different line of work, so he has decided to build on what he already knows about computers. He has enrolled in a class, Introduction to Computers, at his local college. Jim takes up the story: The class I had signed up for, ‘Introduction to...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool
Society, Politics & Law

United We Will Swim: Women’s Role in The Struggle to Save Glasgow’s Govanhill Pool

...2 December 2018: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/17270400.truth-govanhill-demonised-neighbourhood-scotland-people-live/ Kevin McKenna, ‘The Roma are yet again scapegoats for society’s ills’, The Guardian, 19 December 2017: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/roma-again-scapegoats-for-ills-of-society Anna McLauchlan (2017) ‘Geographies of...
DNA Profiling
Science, Maths & Technology

DNA Profiling

...2 or more nucleotides in length, and is repeated many times over, with one repeat occurring just next to another. The number of times that a particular short tandem repeat occurs is characteristic of an individual’s DNA sequence. So by analysing the length of short tandem repeat sequences, it is possible to establish the likelihood that a DNA sample came from a...
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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...2 Leadership or management? - Another theme emerging from the definitions already identified is a distinction between leadership and management. Do leadership and management overlap, or is there a clear distinction between the two? Current thinking on this varies. While leadership might typically be about creating a vision, providing a sense of direction and gaining the...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs