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Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...physically demanding labour of a tinplate works...Aberdulais Falls: A case study in Welsh heritage: 1.4 The economics of maintaining a heritage site - The National Trust operates within a complex web of funding. This comes from annual membership fees and from visitor receipts at individual sites. Each National Trust property is responsible for raising the income necessary...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition
Society, Politics & Law

Abolitionism must come from below: A critique of British Anti-Slavery Abolition

...physical restraint by a police officer in Minneapolis, USA, and the revival of Black Lives Matter on a global level, has placed renewed emphasis on calls for defunding the state police and greater acknowledgement of the brutal British colonial past. These calls, alongside those for further recognition of the manner in which British wealth is in large part historically...
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Article 20 mins
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...physical machines can implement them, whether made of meat, silicon or anything else. He says that A.I. is the best way to study philosophy of the mind by thinking about how to design working minds or fragments of working minds. On why A.I. scientists haven't already far exceeded the capacity of brains: "The way I see it, the real problem is we don't know what it is that...
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Article 15 mins
Scales in space and time
Science, Maths & Technology

Scales in space and time

...physics, chemistry, biology and life-sciences, and Earth and environmental sciences. Across these multiple disciplines you will meet time scales that include ages, durations and rates, and size scales including distances in three dimensions, which underpin areas and volumes...Scale – dealing with the miniscule to the massive, over milliseconds to millennia – is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...physical control over assets and records, and independent checks on performance (COSO, 2017). Adequate segregation of duties The concentration of power in the hands of one or a few individuals can result in a high risk of fraud and abuse. For this reason, COSO (2017) recommends that organisations segregate certain jobs by: separating the custody of assets from accounting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...physical disabilities difficulties in filling out forms and coping with bureaucracy lack of continuity of care, for example as people move between accommodation or are ‘dispersed’ poverty and its impact on the individual being able to afford travel to access services, go to meetings and hearings etc. the use of detention for people with insecure immigration status,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...physical space and physical spaces were just places people didn't go during the pandemic. So we needed to make sure that we were still offering the businesses based here access because they needed to get important pieces of post, that kind of stuff. But we also needed to make sure that the community and everything people were getting that wasn't physical space from this...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...physical, psychological, spiritual and social pain”. The idea of palliative care being holistic can be traced back to Cicely Saunders, the British nurse and doctor who established the first hospice in the UK in the 1960s. She came up with the concept of ‘total pain’, arguing that it was as important to address the mental, emotional, spiritual and social aspects of...
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Article 15 mins