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Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...laws that explain the occurrence of particular types of events in particular types of circumstance – for example, by identifying the mechanisms involved. Scientific knowledge, in contrast to everyday knowledge, was viewed as value-free and, therefore, objective. Science looks for relationships between variables to explore and explain natural phenomena. In particular,...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The economics of flood insurance
Society, Politics & Law

The economics of flood insurance

...law of diminishing marginal utility. It applies to most goods and services consumed; and it even applies to the income used to buy goods and services, as illustrated in Figure 7. [A graph relating utility (on the vertical axis) to income (on the horizontal axis). There are two functions plotted: marginal utility and total utility. Marginal utility is a negatively sloped...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Social care in the community
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social care in the community

...law’s house on Angus’s terms because Ann is committed to caring for him. Does he feel that if he isn’t allowed to be ‘the man’ in his own home, why take responsibility for Zoe’s discipline? Ann The arguing gets to her – she turns on Zoe – then on Bob – then starts vacuum cleaning in frustration – annoyed with them all for not getting on together. Does...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...laws. Many people would argue that the sort of personal data held by democratic states is necessary for effective law enforcement, the maintenance of public health and, more generally, to manage the complexities of modern society. Others, however, may express reservations that the huge amount of information held by the state poses a threat to individual freedom and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 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

...law and everyone who uses this title has to be registered with the Nursing & Midwifery Council. However, the title ‘nurse’ is not protected so anyone can use it. In Section 5 of this course, you will be looking at the role of regulation and the Nursing & Midwifery Council. Other than a hospital, where else do nurses work? Answer Nurses work in a diverse range of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...law and history. Those are all different ways of encountering God. So to say there is a God in which there is faith is only the very beginning of the struggle. Winifred Robinson So it begins with faith to which you then apply reason? Mark Goldsmith I think that’s right. It begins with the presumption that there is a God to be found – now go out and find. Winifred...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Astronomy: images of the Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomy: images of the Universe

...law (the relationship between distance and recession speed: redshift). Figure 18 Galaxy data taken from several astronomical surveys: (a) the distribution of each sample of galaxies on the sky; (b) the distribution of their distances. Examine the two graphs, and answer the following questions to compare what we can learn from different types of galaxy survey. a. The SDSS...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...laws and the observations and so on. So they talk about all of that uncertainty and how you can’t be sure, which is fine – the devil’s in the details. RH: And it’s true, isn’t it, as well? TE: Of course there’s uncertainty, there’s always going to be uncertainty about future predictions. But at the same time they say but they’re very confident that the...
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