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Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...central role in society and is influenced by social, political and economic change. Opinions about law, lawyers, judges and the function of the legal system vary. The role and function of law is often in the news and much debated. Whether law is used to protect, regulate, uphold rights, challenge authority, resolve disputes or govern, it is central to society. In this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Internet of everything
Digital & Computing

Internet of everything

...central processing unit (CPU), memory, and an input/output unit. Based on the definition above, a digital watch is a computing device, but an analogue watch is not. The digital watch has a CPU to run its program, it has memory to store the program and other information, and it has an I/O device to allow user interaction (screen, display, buttons, sound alerts, etc.)....
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...central and important challenge for the current legal framework is that it's discriminatory. So under the Mental Health Order, a compulsory intervention is allowed based on mental disorder and risk. But that can be regardless of whether the person has the capacity to make the relevant treatment decision or not. So treatment can be forced even if a person has the capacity...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...Central Organisation of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), many believe that the NOCs are in effect vice-ministerial level corporations, though their CEOs could be seen as higher ranking officials. Between April 2000 and February 2001, CNPC’s subsidiary PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC were all listed on international stock markets, allowing the NOCs to better integrate...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing social care and social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social care and social work

...central to how they identify themselves but rather is secondary to other aspects of their identity, such as their gender, marital status, language, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexuality or parenthood status...Session 2: Understanding yourself and others: how identities shape and develop: 4 Identity and culture - One of the first steps you can take is to begin to...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...central figure a Chinese philosophic gentleman residing in London writing home in some bewilderment at the habits of the natives, and why Voltaire took the view that China was a sophisticated land of admirable stability peopled by philosophes. The connotations of China in the prince's day were, in short, those of luxury, gaiety and the trappings of rank (Dinkel, 1983,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...central concepts of object-oriented technology. Encapsulation provides an explicit boundary which separates information about which operations are available from information on how they are implemented. Outside the Date object, available operations are advertised via their signatures only (the signature of an operation is the specification of the type of the arguments and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...central to the work that nurses do. Care we deliver improves the health of individuals and communities. Compassion is the way in which we deliver care based on principles of dignity, respect, and empathy. Competence is the knowledge and skills we hold to deliver safe and effective care that is based on research and evidence. Communication underpins our caring...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs