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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...institution. Box 1 Financing Flash Trucks’ expansion The financial management at Flash Trucks is facing a challenge. The company is exploring an opportunity to expand its delivery business into France, which will require an expansion of the current fleet. However, given uncertainty about future trade relations between the countries, and the viability of the new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Quantitative and qualitative research in finance
Money & Business

Quantitative and qualitative research in finance

...institutions, disruptive children in school classrooms, and so on. Those who adopt this orientation assume that the task of understanding other people’s perspectives is difficult, not least because we must overcome, or at least suspend, our own personal and cultural assumptions, perhaps especially our conventional attitudes and evaluations. In fact, questions are...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...et al., 2011). Water quality standards exist to control pollution of domestic water supplies. The maximum limit set by the EU for nitrates in drinking water is 50 g m−3 (as NO3−) (EU, 1998). Water with a high nitrate content can be treated for drinking using reverse osmosis. The effects on the biota of organic pollution and artificial eutrophication are summarised in...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...institutions – it was not solely produced by government agencies. And propagandistic content also appeared in magazines, newspapers, books, songs and postcards, for example, that were not commissioned by the state. Students need to understand why propaganda was so important during the First World War, and here it is useful to introduce the concept of ‘total war’, a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...institutions and the role they have in making change, as well as other ways of making change. Identify and be able to apply in real-life settings some of the key skills and knowledge needed to make change...Introduction to making political and social change: 1 Becoming a changemaker - We live at a time of multiple challenges – environmental, economic, political, social...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...institutions or scholars. Unlike the mass-produced prints of later years, aimed at the broader public, manuscripts often reflect a unique situation – one owner or function – that influenced their form of production, format and repertory. Yet there is also evidence of the creation of multiple manuscript copies of a piece, some being sold in the same way as music prints...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...et al., 2023a, b) that offers a way forward using ‘relational care’ – a developing approach to supporting older people that is gaining traction as part of a wider movement towards new attitudes, and a re-visioning of adult social care. [Four elderly ladies sat around a table in a communal area] Relational care represents a natural progression from person-centred...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Sporting women in the media
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sporting women in the media

...institutional influences in society. This free course, Sporting women in the media, explores whether gendered inequalities exist in sport by evaluating the media coverage. The media can be highly influential in shaping perceptions about gender in sport and headlines indicative of differences in how male and female athletes are regarded in the media. In the course you’ll...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs