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Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...economic instability, right through to everyday issues like the quality of street lighting or even where your cup of coffee comes from. Increasingly, many of these challenges are identified as having their causes in the nature of urbanisation itself. For most places, the challenges they face are mostly not entirely of their own making and are sometimes not of their making...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...economic, political and cultural backgrounds these are also examined...This free course, Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century, examines the role that Scots played in contributing to the developments in healthcare during the nineteenth century. The radical transformation of medicine in Europe included the admission of women as doctors and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...economically and politically dominated peoples anywhere’ first have to realise that they are in a disadvantaged and unfair position, and then they have to think it possible to change it. She also explains the reasons why it is not a matter of course that women are united in their struggle: … those [women] who have the most to lose from taking a stand, that is, women...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...economic purposes, how it constructs identity and reality, and how its particular use in a specific interaction may lead to the success or failure of that interaction. In this way, this exploration provides an introduction to some areas of interest in the discipline of applied linguistics. The course defines what we mean by ‘language’ by contrasting ‘language’ and...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...economic system, anyone with a goal needs some form of funding, even to perform basic day-to-day activities. Just think about the pocket money that children get in order to fund their first small expenses, or the various door-to-door fund-raising activities carried out by non-profit organisations. Of course, just as a child growing into adulthood requires more elaborate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...economics, quantitative research (and mathematical formalism) enjoys more respect. This reflects the wide-held belief that science has to relate to numbers because only the latter imply precision. Nevertheless, it is important to highlight the fruitfulness and, often, the greater depth of understanding we can derive from qualitative procedures. Equally important, though,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Building the first Thames sewer system
Science, Maths & Technology

Building the first Thames sewer system

...economically got rid of by a large pecuniary outlay. As it is, it is cruel to keep Members of Parliament at their posts, although the business they have to do is of the most pressing character, and when the election committees sit, and the rooms and corridors are crowded with the witnesses and parties interested, the state of the unlucky Members engaged in the always...
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Article 10 mins
Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?
Science, Maths & Technology

Can you predict the outcome of a Brexit deal with a little logic and a bit of arithmetic?

...economic constitution is about transforming defensive trade weapons (eg tariffs, or anti-dumping duties) into common rules (say competition law) and compensations (subsidies to poorer regions who might benefit less than the single markets). The more Britain is perceived as adopting what Europeans see as a transactional approach and ignoring the EU’s rules of the game,...
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