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Introducing the voluntary sector
This free course, Introducing the voluntary sector, will guide you through some of the distinctive features and values of the voluntary sector, how organisations are funded and involve volunteers and other ‘stakeholders’ in their work. It will also provide you with knowledge and skills you can apply to your own work or volunteering as well as your everyday life.
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Society, Politics & Law
Crime Scene Officer
Put yourself in a crime scene officer's shoes and try to solve a suspected murder when time and resources are tight. Can you link the suspects to the forensic evidence?
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Society, Politics & Law
Why we should abolish imprisonment for children and young people
Dr David Scott takes a look at the consequences of imprisoning children and young people, and the alternative solutions to this.
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Society, Politics & Law
Coming soon: Youth justice in the UK
When children do something wrong, something usually needs to be done.
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Money & Business
Timeline: Financial Services
Insurance, ATMs on every corner and PayPal might be products and services we take for granted nowadays but when were these all introduced? Find out in our timeline...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Forensic psychology
In this free course, Forensic psychology, you will discover how psychology can help obtain evidence from eyewitnesses in police investigations and prevent miscarriages of justice.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Time to transition from an imperfect peace to a perfect peace
In 1998 the Good Friday agreement brought to an end the violence known as The Troubles in Northern Ireland. But while the killings and bombings largely stopped, there was a rise in another form of violence.
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History & The Arts
French Revolution
This free course provides basic historical background to the French Revolution. It will show that the Revolution accelerated intellectual, cultural and psychological change, and opened up new horizons and possibilities. In fact, while much controversy and scepticism remain as to the real extent of underlying change in the social and economic structure of France, it is generally agreed by scholars that the Revolution stimulated a widening of expectations and imaginative awareness: a belief, inherited from the Enlightenment, in the possibility of progress, as well as a conviction that state and society could be reconstituted with a view to realising social and individual aspirations and human happiness generally. As it degenerated into violence and bloodshed, however, the Revolution also provoked scepticism and pessimism about progress and human nature. The two basic types of modern political outlook, progressive and conservative, date from this experience. Which, if any, of these sets of beliefs was true is not at issue here. What matters is that the Revolution gave rise to them and gave them lasting life.
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History & The Arts
French Revolution
This free course provides basic historical background to the French Revolution. It will show that the Revolution accelerated intellectual, cultural and psychological change, and opened up new horizons and possibilities. In fact, while much controversy and scepticism remain as to the real extent of underlying change in the social and economic structure of France, it is generally agreed by scholars that the Revolution stimulated a widening of expectations and imaginative awareness: a belief, inherited from the Enlightenment, in the possibility of progress, as well as a conviction that state and society could be reconstituted with a view to realising social and individual aspirations and human happiness generally. As it degenerated into violence and bloodshed, however, the Revolution also provoked scepticism and pessimism about progress and human nature. The two basic types of modern political outlook, progressive and conservative, date from this experience. Which, if any, of these sets of beliefs was true is not at issue here. What matters is that the Revolution gave rise to them and gave them lasting life.
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Brexit Hub
Analysis and expert commentary on Britain’s changing relationship with the European Union and the global world.
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Coming soon: Rising China and Africa's development - oil
This new free course will consider the impact of the rise of China on Africa's development through the lens of oil production.
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Why ‘No Deal is better than a Bad Deal’ couldn’t fly
The unmanageable cost of leaving without a Withdrawal Agreement helped the EU impose one that few would ever like.