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Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?
Nature & Environment

Urban trees - could towns and cities become forests?

...manage trees in urban environments now and for the future...6000 years ago, most of Britain would have been covered in a mosaic of woodland and open heaths, bogs and grasslands. Today, although only about six percent of the land in Britain is urban, almost 85% of the population lives in towns and cities. The ancient woods that once covered much of Britain now make up a...
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Studying Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Studying Engineering

...module T868: Environmental Monitoring and Protection, which discusses different environmental monitoring techniques for noise, water, air and wastes, and explores available mitigation methods. This module can be taken individually but it also forms part of our Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management, our MSc in Environmental Management and our MSc in Engineering....
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Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...management, 34(1), 89-126...Week 4: Leadership as process – conversations: Introduction - All leadership is created through process – through ‘doing’. It should be thought of like a verb, rather than a noun. An act, instead of a static ‘thing’ in the possession of any one person. Seen this way, all leadership is necessarily a process shared between more than...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...Introduction and guidance: Introduction and guidance - Planning a better future is an introductory course for anyone considering changing jobs, wondering how to move up the ladder or return to work after a break, and those who might be looking to aspire to better things. Each section of the course offers short, interactive quizzes to test your knowledge. Successful...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Chinese education: How do things work?
Society, Politics & Law

Chinese education: How do things work?

...introduction of the one child policy, leads to parents making great sacrifices in order to ensure that their children receives the best possible education. Parents - and entire families - place their hopes in the educational success of their single offspring. The children are aware (perhaps too aware) of the responsibility on their shoulders and the importance placed on...
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Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...management as it implements change in the organisation (Waraich & Bhardwarj, 2012). Often, destructive survivors portray fear and pessimism towards the reduction process, a perception that negatively impacts their productivity. Constructive survivors do not perceive the reduction process as a threat to their job and, therefore, support management by actively taking part...
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What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...Introduction - This course introduces the concept of heritage and examines its various uses in contemporary society. It then provides a background to the development of critical heritage studies as an area of academic interest, and in particular the way in which heritage studies has developed in response to various critiques of contemporary politics and culture in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...Introduction - There are a wide range of different interactions between ‘science and the public’. Examples range from visiting a museum, or indulging in a science-related hobby, to reading a newspaper article about a breakthrough in the technique of therapeutic cloning, to attending a protest meeting about plans to build a waste disposal unit near to a residential...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs