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Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of...
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Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...maths and math was my best subject at school. So I decided then go down the route of being a quantity surveyor. Lynne Johnson And when you heard your friend’s dad talking about being a quantity surveyor, what bits of it was it that really attracted you to that? Daniel Morrissey There was quite a few bits, it was on site as well, which interested me as well, because I...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...maths materials that a friend, family member or colleague was studying and thought, ‘This is much more interesting than the maths I did at school - I could do this!’ Whatever your responses to these two activities, it is likely that you will have some emotional feelings about why you remembered and recorded them. Emotions and feelings are often part of our learning....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...maths solution may not be the best real solution. Reasoning (i) classification and description sort and classify objects; describe objects and procedures unambiguously and give definitions; and organise information to support logic and reasoning. (ii) inferring make and evaluate mathematical conjectures; infer, interpolate, and extrapolate; make and test hypotheses; make...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
AI fluency
Digital & Computing

AI fluency

...math and logic, AI systems can simulate human reasoning, make predictions, and take actions based on patterns in existing data. In this video, you’ll discover what AI is and how it was first explored back in the 1950s. Voice Over: Artificial intelligence, or AI, has become a buzzword you might have heard recently through social media, in conversations, or even on TV....
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...de-icing project, we might include: ‘Operators shall be able to generate a de-icing schedule after one day’s training’. This is a testable statement because it is straightforward to see whether or not the operators are indeed able to generate a schedule after just one day’s training (Robertson and Robertson, 2006). Activity 5 Assume you are drawing up the...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...de la Cité (Figure 1). Construction began in 1163 and was not finished until 1345, a total of 182 years. It is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in the world. Particularly outstanding are its flying buttresses (the external stone arches supporting the main body of the church), its large and brightly coloured stained-glass rose windows, and its famous...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...of unsatisfactory features. It showed up again in 1924 in the doctoral thesis of Louis de Broglie (1892-1987), who suggested that entities which are normally thought of as particles, such as electrons, actually have a wave-like aspect to their behaviour. Einstein, Bohr and de Broglie all received Nobel Prizes in recognition of their work. These early developments were strikingly out of step with ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs