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Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...account of the ways in which economists have tried to understand what labour market discrimination is and what its sources are. Notice the reference to the ‘ways [plural] … economists have tried to understand’. The most basic message of this course is that economics is not a subject in which there is one single correct answer. This course will also assist you in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...account for this when planning your holidays. Plan ahead by creating a schedule that includes your major commitments (relating to study, work, and personal or social life) for the duration of your course. You could use a study calendar for this, adding your other commitments to it. Make sure that you plan for contingencies (in case you fall behind and need to catch up),...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...accounts of his character and beliefs. His fellow playwright Thomas Kyd accused him of holding a variety of ‘monstrous opinions’, of being ‘intemperate’ and of having ‘a cruel heart’ (Maclure, 1979, pp. 35, 33), though it's important to realise that Kyd made these claims under torture. The spy Richard Baines, who had already informed on Marlowe during the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Studying mammals: Return to the water
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Return to the water

...account for their diving abilities. Part of the secret is that aquatic mammals use their lungs more efficiently: they extract more oxygen from the air they take in, and change a higher proportion of the air within their lungs with every breath. For example, we take in about a litre of air with each breath, despite the fact that our lungs can hold over four litres; a fin...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Digital forensics
Science, Maths & Technology

Digital forensics

...Accounting – to trace any financial inconsistencies within a company’s account. Figure 5 Money Forensic Dentistry – the use of information through examination of teeth and dental prostheses to assist in identifying human remains and evaluating bite marks. Figure 6 Teeth Forensic Anthropology – the study of human beings in relation to their physical character. The...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...account of what set this new scientific age apart from the pre-Enlightenment era was and is empiricism (a nineteenth-century term). The backbone of empiricism is a simple claim: Empiricism (roughly characterised): opinions are reasonable if, and only if, they are supported by evidence that is ultimately grounded in experience. ‘Experience’, here, can mean everyday...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...account of a road accident, which is not atypical of many we see in the newspapers or hear about on news bulletins: Two vehicles were involved in an accident on the Anytown bypass late last night. X was travelling north and was in collision with another vehicle turning right from the southbound carriageway into a petrol filling station. The driver, Y, of the second...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...Account - Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings: a mixed methods study Our research aimed to understand the experience of people being a witness in the Fitness to Practise process. We focused on cases where the witness or their family member has died or believes that someone seriously harmed them. We examined:...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs