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Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...L. Gore. Yet suits brought by customers against PeopleSoft and competitors, including Lawson Software, Oracle and SAP, are increasingly uncommon. A court date for the Ohio case has not yet been scheduled. Gilbert (2004)...Software and the law: 5.2 Contract analysis - When hardware is supplied it is usual for the purchaser to be the owner of that hardware, as with any...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...L. Ahmed 1992: 118; El Guindi 1995b). As an example, lithma is the term for a dual-gendered face cover used in Yemen by women and associated with femaleness, yet it is also worn by some Bedouin and Berber men and associated with virility and maleness. Other examples include the neutral-gendered terms ‘abayah or ‘aba of Arabia and burnus of the Maghrib – overgarments...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...Dan Olweus, a psychologist specializing in children and bullying, looks at typical bullies and their victims in Sweden, although what he writes of Sweden is equally applicable to non-Scandinavian countries and North America. Read the extract, looking in particular at the links between home life and school behaviour, and noting the particular characteristics of those who...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...Dan Taylor, Head of Security, NHS Digital, the following were the main reasons that the NHS was so affected (Evenstad, 2017). The NHS had a complicated organisational structure that allocated the responsibilities of policy making, service commissioning and data and information organisation to three different bodies, namely the Department of Health, NHS England and NHS...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...L. (2011) Land deals in Africa: what is in the contracts?, London, International Institute for Environment and Development; also available online at http://pubs.iied.org/pdfs/12568IIED.pdf (Accessed 22 November 2012). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2009) Video: David Hallam on FDI in agriculture [Online]. Available at
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...L. (2005) Success with Languages, Abingdon, Routledge/The Open University...Week 1: How to say hello and goodbye: Acknowledgements - This free course was first published in April 2021. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...L. (2014) ‘Empowerment in the field of health promotion: recognizing challenges in working towards equity’, Global Health Promotion, 21(4), pp. 35–43. Bhui, K. S., Hicks, M. H., Lashley, M. (2012) ‘A public health approach to understanding and preventing violent radicalization’, BMC Med, 10(16). https://doi.org/ 10.1186/ 1741-7015-10-16 Darmanin, A. M. (2012)...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...L. (2011) Personal communication with Lisa Smith, Data Services Group, Department for Education, 16th February. Strongman, M. and Mansfield, T. (2004) ‘Survey of parents’ perceptions of teaching assistants’, Unpublished study, Roche, Roche Community School. Swann, W. and Hancock R. (2003) ‘Variations in primary school teaching assistant employment: a need for...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs