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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...law degree but she had to abandon the course when her child carer –‘a friend’–wanted some money. The lack of that small sum changed her life drastically for the worse. Now her dreams are more modest. She’d like the council’s private contractors, Acorn Housing, to answer her calls. She wants them to fix the toilet their workmen dismantled when they wrongly...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...laws preventing them from harming humans, all too often seem to be on the verge of running amok. Even today, many people are suspicious of the power of computers and of the role they play in our lives. And now, when at last we have a limited power to manipulate living things through gene technology, and perhaps to use this technology to tailor life to our needs, such work...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age
History & The Arts

Digital humanities: humanities research in the digital age

...laws banning pornography or material deemed supportive of a political movement opposed to the government in the state where the search engine company operates. In order to use search critically (an essential skill for digital humanities), it is important to unlearn what commercial web search has taught us. That means asking questions about the metadata, the index and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...laws and regulations. Key elements of a typical compliance programme include managing risk, meeting global standards, preventing corporate loss, insurance systems are in place that would reduce any penalties incurred in civil or criminal judgments, improving the business's public image. Together they represent the many things that the compliance programme aims to achieve....
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
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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
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
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
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