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Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...sustained unsubsidised jobs. A further 30 per cent of leavers left to unknown destinations. Research indicates that 56 per cent of participants who left the programme and for whom no known destination was recorded (some additional 107,000 young people) had left to go into a job. However, some young people placed into sustained jobs (lasting more than 13 weeks) will have...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to music theory 1: form
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 1: form

...sustained tones played on an instrument called the tanpūrā (Bor, 1999, p. 5). Occasionally, another instrument such as a harmonium (a kind of keyboard instrument that produces sound with the help of a bellows in the manner of an accordion), shadows what the singer performs, playing something the same as or very similar to what is sung. After the improvised opening,...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding different research perspectives
Money & Business

Understanding different research perspectives

...sustain the development of a research study, from the initial idea of what to investigate; to the elaboration of specific research questions; the research design, strategy and methodology...This free course, Understanding different research perspectives, explores the development of the research process looking at the different perspectives from which an issue or...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...sustainable business model is characterised by a high degree of integration of all phases of the fashion process: design, supply, product and manufacturing quality control, logistics and retail through our 7,475 stores worldwide and in 47 online markets. (Inditex Annual Report 2017, p. 27) Discussion As a clothing retailer Marks and Spencer are positioned towards the end...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...sustain them. Our young people are also desperate to have friends and they will put themselves in vulnerable positions to form relationships; i.e. sending inappropriate pictures or talking to strangers or sending explicit texts. They also end up having arguments over the internet which causes conflict in the setting, young people not always recognising the dangers of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...sustainable creates problems for my people today. Some claim that in order to succeed in the modern world, we need to leave all the old ways behind. I belong to those who think we should take with us the best from our ancestral heritage, and dare to take it with us into the new world of technology and science. Therefore, my music has always consisted of old traditional...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...sustained a positive image largely as a result of the efforts of the Corporation. It involved itself in a massive council house-building programme in an effort to deal with the problem of the slums and films of this programme went the rounds of British cinemas. But under the hype the reality was that the old Glasgow was doomed. The whole country was re-structuring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Critically exploring psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Critically exploring psychology

...sustained critical reflexive evaluation of what you are doing. A piece of research in which the researcher does not show awareness of competing epistemological/ methodological perspectives (something you will look at in more detail in Section 3), and where they are insufficiently critical of their research, is likely not be considered as a strong piece of research. It is...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs