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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...account new learning...Learning, thinking and doing: 1.5 Making the most of your reflections - The value of the work you do on all the activities in this course will be strengthened if you can keep track of it and follow the development of your own ideas as they build up. It helps to keep your notes in one place, together with other material which catches your interest...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism
History & The Arts

How the potato fuelled the rise of liberal capitalism

...account of the watery nature of potatoes. Allowing, however, half the weight of this root to go to water, a very large allowance, such an acre of potatoes will still produce six thousand weight of solid nourishment, three times the quantity produced by the acre of wheat. An acre of potatoes is cultivated with less expense than an acre of wheat; the fallow, which generally...
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Article 5 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...accounting, as these were the types of jobs most women could expect to obtain after leaving school. However, the main emphasis of girls’ education continued to be on preparing them for future lives as wives and mothers and jobs which typically reflected these kinds of roles, for example, cleaning, catering, clerical, cashiering/retail and childcare. These jobs were...
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Article 10 mins
Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...account for 16% of all A&E attendances, with just 0.7% of the population accounting for 29% of ambulance journeys and 26% of unplanned hospital admissions. The data also showed that many of the regular attenders were dealing with ‘mental health problems, relationship breakdown, housing insecurity or loneliness.’ Some vulnerable people use A&E weekly or more BBC News...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...account of ‘external’ perceptions - How you support your current supporters is also an important influence on how you are perceived by potential new donors and contributors. If you become known as an organisation which values its contributors, your chance of securing new donors increases...Building relationships with donors: 3.6.5 Using ‘involvement devices’...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...accounted for the killing of 48–160 billion fishes and 220–520 billion crustaceans (Fish Count, 2019). Different jurisdictions have different laws governing legally permissible harming of farmed animals, but all ‘livestock’ farming necessitates killing. This is obviously so for ‘meat’, but also applies to killing ‘dairy’ cows and laying hens when they are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
People-centred designing
Science, Maths & Technology

People-centred designing

...account by equipment designers. The growth of applications of computers, and the incorporation of microprocessors in products, has meant that interaction design has become a major new area of application for human factors research. Many of us now use information technology devices either directly, such as in computer work, or indirectly in products that have embedded...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Mastering systems thinking in practice Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Mastering systems thinking in practice

...account of the interconnectedness of all the components making up the problem situation and working more collaboratively...Are you thinking about studying Systems Thinking at postgraduate level and want to become equipped with the knowledge and skills to do so successfully? Do you want to develop new ways of thinking about and approaching situations that cross multiple...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs