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Basic Financial Life Skills
Teaching students to control their personal finances can lead to a healthier budgeting system, self-accomplishment and a debt-free credit record.

Basic First Aid Training
Learn how to stay calm and act fast in emergencies, treat injuries, perform CPR, and save lives with essential first aid skills everyone should know.

Basic Horse Care - Equine Psychology
This horse training course explores equine behaviour and psychology and explains how to use this knowledge to care for your horse and their mental health.

Basic Principles of Environmental Management
This sustainable development course explains how responsible environmental management allows businesses to minimise the impact of human activity on the planet.

Basic Programming in iOS11 and Swift 4
Learn to install Xcode 9, how to code Swift 4, and the best practices of programming. Also, learn how to build professional applications.

Basic Proofreading & Copyediting Techniques
Advance your career with this proofreading and copyediting course, covering essential editing skills and the key differences between both disciplines.

Basic Telephone Etiquette
Learn the essentials of telephone etiquette to communicate professionally with customers, colleagues, and co-workers and enhance your phone skills.

Basic Theory of Creative Writing
Learn how to write a novel, screenplay or poetry in these creative writing lessons that explain how to create original stories full of compelling characters.

Basic Theory of Equine Welfare
This free online course will teach you the essentials of caring for horses. You will learn about equine health, nutrition, behavior, and overall wellbeing.

Basics of AWS Redshift
Learn how Amazon Web Services Redshift’s data management services let organizations store and analyze information securely in data warehouses in the cloud.

Basics of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Discover the basic assumptions, goals and beliefs of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Basics of Animal Care and Psychology
Learn how to provide animal care that is informed by an understanding of animal psychology and make sure you use the best methods to care for your pets.

Basics of Heat Transfer: Conduction
Explore the fascinating science of heat transfer in this free online course, an introduction to the branch of physics that deals with the rate of heat transfer.

Basics of Herbalism
Harness the power of ancient technology with this natural healthcare course that explains how to use herbs as medicine, cosmetics or to improve mental health.

Basics of Homesteading
Go off the grid with this homesteading course that provides sustainable techniques you can use to grow crops, care for animals, generate power and more.

Basics of Lymphatic Drainage Massage
Learn how to perform lymphatic drainage massage (LDM) to remove waste and toxins from the body and boost patients’ immune systems, circulation and skin tone.

Basics of Manual Handling in the Workplace
This occupational health and safety course explains how to minimise workplace risk during the manual handling of goods and how to comply with UK labour law.

Basics of Paralegal Studies UK
Train as a paralegal with this law course that provides the administrative, communication and legal skills you need to support the work of a UK law office.

Basics of Paralegal Training UK
This basic law course explains how to become a paralegal, explores human rights and provides the training you need to work in a law firm as a legal assistant.

Basics of Prompt Engineering
Learn how to use AI to create stunning images in this IT course that explains how prompt engineers design prompts for Dall-E, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney.

Basics of Property Law
Learn how land laws work in the UK in this property law course that explains key legal terms and regulations concerning bailments, mortgages, leases and more.

Basics of Rhythm
Study music and learn the basics of rhythm in these music lessons that explain how to read and write musical notations and develop your own sense of rhythm.

Basics of Safeguarding Children
Referencing the UK Children Act, this course unpacks important guidelines for identifying, disclosing and referring cases of sexual and other abuse in children.

Basics of Solicitors
This law course guides you on your path towards becoming a solicitor in the UK and explores the legal profession, from working with clients to its ethics.