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Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...account in the price of carbon. Although it would be up to the private sector to provide the investment and meet the liabilities of decommissioning and waste disposal, the regulatory and planning requirements would be reduced. In any case, scale economies using new, more efficient reactor systems are bringing down the costs of construction, financing, operating and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...account for phenomena (e.g. aspects of human behaviour), in particular by using numbers (such as the number or proportion of people who engage in exercise regularly). They break down or separate behaviour into variables or factors that can be measured (for instance, by clearly defining regular exercise as ‘150 minutes of moderate intensity exercise in bouts of 10...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...account expensive pigments, the use of gold and painstaking labour, painting was a relatively low-cost option compared with the work of goldsmiths or embroiderers, for example. While prices were linked to the cost of materials, it was affordable by a much wider range of clients, and hence could not offer the social elite the exclusive cultural cachet they sought. It was...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...account the process used to develop a software system. What the developer does during development affects the ease with which it can be maintained. If a change is easy to make, the cost of that change (labour) can be minimised so that the software system continues to be affordable. The maintainability of software is greatly influenced by how software is designed, written...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Advancing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...accountability procedures – make sure that when leaders emerge within your group, you remain agile but also not too dependent on any one person. Provide forums for dialogue – foster a culture of difference, where people are free to bring in new perspectives...Week 3: From power to resistance: 3 This week’s quiz - Now that you’ve completed Week 3, you can take a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...accounts. At the core of UK RED rests the notion of a ‘reading experience’, that is, a recorded engagement with a written or printed text beyond the mere fact of possession. The evidence collected in UK RED is therefore mostly anecdotal or personal. But contributors have gone beyond the traditional sources used for studying reading, such as diaries and
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...account the clever ones who are offending and not getting caught-. RICHARD SPARKS Alison Liebling, of the Institute of Criminology in Cambridge. ALISON LEIBLING My feeling at the moment is that prison is being over used, that expectations of what it can do are very high and that if we're realistic we have to start from where we are, I do believe you could make the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...accounting for the crimes of Nazi Germany was enough of a burden for future generations without adding further to this charge sheet. In many ways, the Fischer controversy says as much about Germany in the 1960s as it reveals about imperial Germany. Fischer’s book appeared in 1961, the year that saw the building of the Berlin Wall and the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs