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Climate change: island life in a volatile world
Society, Politics & Law

Climate change: island life in a volatile world

...sustaining and generative. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine any territory maintaining itself without such flows. Similarly, your own body, although it is discernibly individual and distinct from other people's bodies, remains utterly reliant on things passing into it, flowing through it and passing out of it. In this sense, it is more useful to conceive of flows as...
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...sustaining a successful governing body. This course provides an opportunity for you to reflect on your own team working experiences, to explore examples of team working in schools and to reflect on the importance of teamworking and leadership in building successful teams. Throughout you explore the relevance of teamworking to your governor experience and its function...
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...sustainability in the operations, financing and governance of the company. Under the social theory, financial accounting and reporting have to be supplemented by other types of information that demonstrate that the company has operated sustainably, added value rather than created externalities, and has behaved ethically and responsibly. Activity 9 Your perspective on the...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...sustainability of democratic societies, and their social and economic development. Youth policy reflects how a government, or decision makers, view young people. The way a society treats its young people is very important for its present and future. So, youth policy is a question of values and vision of society. Youth refers to the transitions to autonomy that each person...
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Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...sustainable and resilient, so that if one source of money dries up, they have other funds potentially available. Gaining long-term funding is obviously crucial, as it helps with planning as well as the stability of the organisation. In larger organisations, fundraising is generally done by professional fundraising staff. However, other staff, trustees and volunteers may...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to material culture
History & The Arts

An introduction to material culture

...sustainability of the planet. Activity 1 The films below were made by three different members of the course team and provide interesting insights into why we might study objects in the first place. People acquire and collect objects for many different reasons that can include cultural, economic and personal motivations. Watch the films now. As you watch, make some brief...
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...sustainability is the continual refinement of the knowledge and skills that lead to informed citizenry that is committed to responsible individuals and collaborative actions that will result in an ecologically sound, economically prosperous, and equitable society for present and future generations. The principles underlying education for sustainability include, but are...
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...sustain statehood for one's nation is the ultimate expression of political independence, as it has been since the rise of the modern nation-state around the time of the French Revolution. At that time, the nation-state began, for a complex variety of reasons, to see off its great historical rivals – city-states and empires for example. Beginning in Europe and spreading...