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Studying mammals: The opportunists
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The opportunists

...simple relationship reveals is that animals depend on plants for their energy supply - a dependence evident in the use of the term 'primary producer' (or more simply 'producer') to describe plants in trophic level 1; herbivores and carnivores are termed primary and secondary consumers respectively. What is also evident is that in any feeding relationship, in addition to...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...simple? In this course you will examine the idea of leadership and what it means to be a leader in a modern-day policing organisation or a leader in your community. You will also look at how effective Policing with the Community can be achieved with shared goals. You will step away from the jargon and hype to understand what leadership means in practice and on the ground....
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...simple as that as many costs are semi-variable, with both variable and fixed components. Despite this complication, many planning and decision-making activities require an understanding of how costs change as the level of output changes. This requires separating costs into their fixed and variable elements. There are a number of techniques, of varying degrees of...
All my own work: exploring academic integrity Badge icon
Education & Development

All my own work: exploring academic integrity

...simple game that illustrates the notion of ‘giving credit’ to the ‘buyers’ of each food item. In ‘packing your trolley’ as it were, you must account for each player’s item. [Mini shopping trolley filled with a piee of card which reads ‘Ideas’.] Similarly, when you write for academic purposes, you are not only permitted but often encouraged to draw upon...
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...simple sequence of events through geological time...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.2 Minerals and rocks - To begin with, it is necessary to explain the meanings of the two terms ‘minerals’ and ‘rocks’...Practising science: reading the rocks and ecology: 1.2.1 Minerals - A mineral is a solid material, formed by natural processes and with a...
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...simple, two-dimensional and flat representation of the central figure of Christianity and His Mother visualises a wealth of theological issues and acts as a window that opens up and invites us, through our sight, into a spiritual world. The flatness of the background lacks any hint of physical surroundings – as a viewer you simply do not know where the scene is set. It...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...simple as it may at first seem. Activity 1 Part 1 Have a think about all the times and ways you’ve used language so far today. What have you used it to achieve? Could you have done these same things without language? What sorts of language have you used? Spoken, written, gestures or other forms of physical communication? Have you used predominantly English, or other...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...simple approach for establishing what and why is to ask the 5 Ws and H questions for assessing why change is needed. If you consider the decisions you make every day, you may unconsciously use this approach. For example, when you go shopping; ask yourself: What do you want to buy? Why do you need it? Where will you get it from? When are you going to go? Who needs to come...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs