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Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...family’s farm and wants to develop more income by diversifying outside of traditional farming activities. Gwyneth is a keen cook and has had her hours reduced at the café where she works in town. To supplement her family income, she wants to sell her homemade jams, chutneys and preserves at farmers’ markets and food fairs. Julia, a Further Education student, lives...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...trees and shrubs, levelling the site, laying out the access roads and constructing them, constructing foundations and erecting the buildings required by the plans. A research and development department in a chemical firm may be asked to devote time to exploring the possibilities of developing products using a new polymer. At the same time, some analysis of the potential...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...family and you’re not one of them any more, you’re on your own, nobody asked me to do the foundation degree, I wanted to do it myself. I did the NVQ 3 a few years back and decided that I wanted to educate myself more. My role at the nursery, there’s five different nurseries, and at first the owner came up to me and said she knew me from my foundation degree and knew...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...trees, grass, whatever it might be, and then sucking the CO2 out and then putting CO2 cycle into reverse. Do you think that is a realistic prospect that we would do that? TL: I’ve had a careful look at the numbers on that and it is conceivable that we could be in a position to do that but only if we were incredibly efficient in our development of agriculture and...
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Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...family background, social status, financial status, living arrangements, family unit, education, demographics, culture. These three aspects of health should not be viewed as independent; it is likely that there is some overlap between them and one or all can influence the other(s) as you will see as you progress through this course. As you work through this course, you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry
History & The Arts

The People on the Notes: Elizabeth Fry

...family, and spent most of her formative years at the seventeenth-century mansion, Earlham Hall, in Norfolk. Although raised as a Quaker in ‘name only’, in 1798 a young Elizabeth decided to fully embrace the Quaker faith and traditions. Just two years later, she married tea merchant Joseph Fry, and the couple moved to London. In the intervals between child-bearing,...
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Article 15 mins
Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Oddfellows and Chartism

...families for an evening meeting in the pub, they were still supporting those families. Oddfellows who travelled in search of work could arrive at a lodge and expect a bed for the night, an introduction to an employer or, if there was no work, a penny to go on their way. The society enabled men to determine the labour supply. To bind members together and to help ensure...
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Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...family. Thus I proceeded to live, but five years ago something very strange began to happen to me: I was overcome by minutes at first of perplexity and then of an arrest of life, as though I did not know how to live or what to do, and I lost myself and was dejected. But that passed, and I continued to live as before. Then those minutes of perplexity were repeated oftener...
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Article 15 mins