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How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences
Society, Politics & Law

How arguments are constructed and used in the Social Sciences

...sustained. Has the proposition been adequately established and logically reasoned, such that we can maintain with confidence that the failure to discriminate between the deserving and undeserving poor has caused the cost of welfare to inflate uncontrollably and that it has undermined the work ethic and produced a less fair, rather than a fairer society. To help you asses...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...Sustainability Report 2010/11, Mumbai, Reliance Industries. Schaefer Kalk (2010) Zukunft wächst aus Tradition: 150 Jahre Schaefer Kalk, Germany, Schaefer Kalk GmbH & Co KG. UK Government (n.d.) ‘Choose a legal structure for a new business’ [Online]. Available at www.gov.uk/business-legal-structures/overview (Accessed 21 November 2013)...Different types of business:...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...sustainable. We hope the course has been useful and interesting to you, and you’ll be able to apply some of these principles in your very next conversation!...Three principles of a coaching approach: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Phil Hayes from Management Futures and Sue Parr from the Executive Education team at The Open University Business School....
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...Sustainable Living. This gave me an inside knowledge of the charity and I built a strong relationship with staff members. When paid roles were made available, I had a clear advantage over other applicants.' A boost for the CV ‘I’m a treasurer of a youth football team, which I find very rewarding as well as tiring and time consuming. Trying to fit in my job, my OU...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...sustained efforts of a diverse group of people. Leadership, then, can be thought of as a disruptive force within organisations, something that asks the awkward questions and leads others into fresh thinking that was previously off-limits. It is also something that confronts the status quo, seeking conflictual, if participative debate and discussion about what matters for...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...sustained at very low body temperatures...Animals at the extremes: Polar biology: 2.2 Migration for breeding - Birds do not hibernate, but like reindeer, many species undergo daily or seasonal changes in energy expenditure and appetite, and many of the endocrine changes that are an integral part of true hibernation in other groups. The fact that the preliminary stages of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...sustained warming and two periods when the GMST fluctuated without any overall warming or cooling trend. Deciding where the fluctuations end and the warming begins is open to debate. The IPCC's verdict? Most of the warming occurred in the periods 1910 to 1945 and since 1976. The rate of warming for both periods is about 0.15°C per decade, more than twice the century-long...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 (IEA, 2023, p. 88): providing access to electricity for the 775 million people in the world who lacked this in 2023 providing access to clean cooking for the 2.2 billion people who lacked this in 2023. The IEA modellers worked backwards from these assumptions to produce a scenario of possible future changes to the global energy...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs