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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...law, and encourage you to think about your personal reaction to legal issues that have been raised. Other methods of reflection include peer review, which involves students sharing their work with peers for feedback, and self-assessment, which requires you to comment on your own work. We will focus here on two methods that are frequently used to support reflective...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...law firm, for example? There is therefore a danger with transformational leadership that it transfers too much deference and power into the hands of single leaders and you will consider these issues in the next section...Week 3: Transformational leadership and power: 2 Sacred leadership? - The core problem with leader-centred perspectives on leadership is that they feed...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...law that gives individuals more control over their personal information. For organisations, this means ensuring that there are robust data privacy policies and processes, which limit how personal data is accessed and what an organisation can do with that data. It is important to understand that data and information is not restricted to that contained in documents, but it...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
The ethics of cultural heritage
History & The Arts

The ethics of cultural heritage

...laws and conventions have been drawn up to try and protect heritage from this sort of destruction. In the next pages you will learn about one of the main treaties with this aim...Week 2: Cultural heritage in war: 3 The Hague Convention (1954) - Cultural heritage often plays an important role in armed conflicts. Heritage buildings can be used as fortresses or observation...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...law maxim de minimis non curat lex: ‘the law does not concern itself with trifles’. A one-in-a-million level of increased risk over a lifetime is often used as a reasonable criterion for separating high-risk problems (which warrant attention) from negligible-risk problems (which do not). Of course, you can try to quantify such risks, but still your perception of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...law, and utters a speech to the effect that, owing to old age, he wishes to retire from the cares of business and divide his kingdom between his daughters. In order to know how much he should give to each daughter, he announces that to the one who says she loves him most he will give most. The eldest daughter, Goneril, says that words can not express the extent of her...
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Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...law wouldn't punish her, would they? So I did. [SIGHS] Well, there you are. I’ve done your work for you. Sorry, Carol. How successful are the screen writers in adapting a supposedly un-adaptable novel for the small screen, based on this scene and their handling of the killer’s revelation? What decisions might they have made differently, in terms of structure, form and...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Visions of protest: graffiti
History & The Arts

Visions of protest: graffiti

...laws (for example, by spraying illicit graffiti onto public road surfaces) and the potential damage graffiti can cause to public or private property cannot be answered here and is highly dependent on specific circumstances and contexts, and on the techniques used. It also raises a range of other questions: What qualifies as a ‘good’ cause? When does graffiti work...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs