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Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality Badge icon
Money & Business

Entrepreneurship – from ideas to reality

...accounted for some caution on the economic uncertainty around. Since the pandemic, the UK Business Angels Association (UKBAA) have continued to prioritise proposals from healthcare; biotech, life sciences and pharmaceuticals; and software as a service (British Business Bank, 2020b). [A chart that shows the share of enterprises between small, medium and large businesses.]...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?
Education & Development

Networked practitioner: open or closed practice?

...account on Twitter, perform a search on the hashtag #h818conf – this is the hashtag used for the annual Online Conference of the H818 course The networked practitioner. Every student on the course delivers a short online presentation about an aspect of ‘Open education’ under a subtheme of inclusion, implementation or innovation. If you do not have a Twitter account...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...account the fact that literacy is more than a set of skills. Literacy must also be viewed as being grounded in wider cultural, social and political contexts. Historically, educationalists focused on reading and writing instruction rather than teaching literacy. Literacy was not usually associated with skills, and describing a person as being ‘literate’ referred to...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...account measurements such as the numbers of church attendance, buildings and clergy. The second picture shows global pop music icons the Beatles. In 1966, one of their songwriters, John Lennon, had famously said in an Evening Standard interview: “Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I'll be proved right. We're more...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...account the natural processes and possibilities of flood management, offering more effective techniques and more realistic goals than relying just on projects to keep water out. Reconnecting with traditional flood plains may be the best way to ensure that river flooding is managed, but it is problematic for households, insurers and government if there are properties built...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital skills: succeeding in a digital world

...accountancy firm, but that job isn’t really going anywhere. What I would like to do is to work in marketing. My goal is to get a marketing job within the motorsports industry. I’m not very confident with computers. I’m OK and I can do what I have to but it’s all moving on so quickly. Sometimes I feel I can’t keep up. And Sam and Isabel, they’re my children, I...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...accountability, recognition of common interests as the basis for relationships among diverse communities’ (Mohanty, 2003: 7). Solidarity, then, is both a motivation for social action and ‘the hoped-for outcome of this form of action’ (Bassel and Emejulu 2014:133). Solidarity means building communities of action across differences, including those of migrant and...
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Article 15 mins
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...account at a much earlier stage, thereby reducing this liability. The fact is that optimising purely for potency in an isolated protein assay has not necessarily resulted in the most effective drugs. Compounds with high lipophilicity can bind strongly to many protein active sites since most proteins have multiple regions with high lipophilicity. One effect is to reduce...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs