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An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...de-escalate it really effectively. And then stakeholders into your health. So you've got the immediate response in terms of the ambulance service. But then one of the big issues that we found and were able to have some particular success around was drawing down funding from the winter pressures fund. Because actually if we can divert people away from A & E at the times...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Histology, microscopy, anatomy and disease

...De Montfort University, UCLH London, The Institute of Opthamology, Cambridge University, Milton Keynes NHS Trust, Leicester General Infirmary, KCL London. The microscope was developed by a team at The Open University, directed by Professor David Male and it was funded by a project grant from JISC. As the collection of slides available has been drawn from a number of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...De Martonne's aridity index has been used widely and is calculated from the formula: I a = aridity index P = mean annual precipitation/mm T = mean annual temperature/°C Note that values for average precipitation can be misleading because in arid deserts, especially hyper-arid desert, there are many years that have no rainfall at all. Certain coastal deserts such as the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Looking globally: the future of education Badge icon
Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...de Bono would probably call, ‘laterally’ – to think not just in linear or convergent ways, to see multiple answers, not one. So there are tests for this. One kind of ‘cod’ example would be: people might be asked to say how many uses can you think of for a paper clip. Or there’s routine questions. Most people might come up with 10 or 15. People who are good at...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...de plume of ‘one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lanark’ (if intended to provide Owen with anonymity this was a thin disguise, given the content) and entitled ‘On the Formation of Character’, is prefixed by the famous precept, central to the ‘New View’, that: Any general character, from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...de/ system/ files/ publications/ wp120_maehler.pdf (Accessed 25 November 2018). Marsh, J. (2015) ‘Supplying the world’s factory: environmental impacts of Chinese resource extraction in Africa,’ Tulane Environmental Law Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 393–407. Mohan, G. and Lampert, B. (2013) ‘Negotiating China: reinserting African agency into China-Africa...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
An introduction to geology
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to geology

...de Venezuela in Flickr. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/ Figure 1.2: left to right: Jorge Láscar in flickr.com. https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by/ 2.0/; Unsplash: from www.pixabay.com. https://creativecommons.org/ publicdomain/ zero/ 1.0/ deed.en, Image: courtesy Liam Gumley, Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...de Streel (March, 2019) summarised how anticompetitive behaviour could occur given digital firms’ size, competition, and particularities. They divide this behaviour into four main categories: bundling products (abuse of dominance), product proliferation and essential components (abuse of dominance), acting as gatekeepers (abuse of dominance) and finally via strategic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs