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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...simple heuristics to more complex cognitive strategies in response to the importance of the situation and desired outcomes (Fiske and Taylor, 1991). What both the economic and psychological perspectives have in common is the notion of people as limited-capacity information processors and the concept of ‘bounded rationality’ (Simon, 1957): that is, there are limits to...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Introduction to operations management
Money & Business

Introduction to operations management

...simple input process output framework. This model has been extended by Nigel Slack and his team in his operations management text. The basic structure of the framework is the same. Operations managers are responsible for resources. Both the transformed resources, including the material, information, and customers. And they also manage the transforming resources, such as...
Rural entrepreneurship in Wales
Money & Business

Rural entrepreneurship in Wales

...simple tool to use when embarking on the early stages of planning a marketing strategy, and we will work primarily with the four Ps. These four tools (product, price, place and promotion) are interdependent and the trick is to find the right ‘mix’ to satisfy customers...Rural entrepreneurship in Wales: 3.4.1 Product (or service) - The product or service relates to...
Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...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 observation using one or more of the five senses, but it is also meant to include rigorous scientific experimentation. Respect for this principle is what supposedly...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...Code requires directors of listed organisations to design and implement a sound internal control and risk management system (FRC, 2024). The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (2022) highlighted that almost half of the fraud cases covered by its global fraud study could be attributed to either a lack of internal controls (29%) or the overriding of existing controls...
Creative writing and critical reading
History & The Arts

Creative writing and critical reading

...simple language to create authentic yet lively dialogue. It helps to use a non-chronological or nonlinear approach like this in your critical reading of performance and script – for example, picking out how individual scenes start, how they end, how dialogue works in social settings, how monologues operate. Reading specific sections in isolation reminds you that a...
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...simple, more ‘natural’ diets. They stopped consuming alcohol, tea, coffee and meat, and ate fruit, vegetables and cereals (the word ‘muesli’ was adopted into the English language at this time). The popularity of ‘health foods’ (such as ‘Hovis’ wholemeal bread) and vegetarianism grew from the mid-nineteenth century to become a mass movement in Germany and...
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...simple scheme for discriminating between the demands made on you, the learner, by different kinds of learning goals and the processes entailed in achieving those goals. Theorists of learning have different ways of categorising the diversity of both outcome and process in learning. The scheme we are going to work with here uses three distinct kinds of learning: memorising,...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs