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Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...Business...Making decisions: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: have greater insight into decision-making processes use that insight to make more effective decisions possess a range of different perspectives on what counts as an ‘effective’ decision be better equipped to understand and influence the decision-making processes of...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...money if you received too much change? Theft Discharge – 6 years’ imprisonment Have you kept money found in the street? Theft Discharge – 6 years’ imprisonment Have you taken ‘souvenirs’ from a pub or hotel? Theft Discharge – 6 years’ imprisonment Have you ever left a shop without paying in full for your purchases? Making off without payment Discharge –...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...business of higher education. These negative beliefs sometimes associate fun with being merely entertainment, or a ‘trivial experience’, and unconnected to the hard and effortful work required for learning. For example, according to the Centre for Education Economics (CEE, 2018): ‘Making lessons fun does not help students to learn’. Fun is considered unnecessary...
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Article 20 mins
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...business-as-usual path. XR is now a worldwide movement with the support of a growing number of academics and members of society from all walks of life, including adults and teenagers. The need for a declaration of a climate emergency is to mobilise the rapid actions needed to avert ecological catastrophe. Through a concerted campaign of civil disobedience, XR is in this...
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Article 15 mins
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...business costs ten years on . Available at: https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/mental-health-work-business-costs-ten-years/ (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Dattani, S. Rodés-Guirao, Ritchie, H. and Roser, M. (2018) Mental Health. Available at: https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health (Accessed: 4 January 2024). Department for Work and Pensions and Department...
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Article 5 mins
How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...business, you can then say that you now have experience of being your own boss. You could point out all the new skills you have gained from sales to budgeting and from marketing to hiring and firing assuming that you had people working for you. Even if the business venture wasn’t successful (don’t mention this negative aspect on your CV) at least you can take a lot of...
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Article 5 mins
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...business, and that he has failed to pay it back. In addition, there is a significant amount of money missing from her bank account; she does not know what has happened to it but says that Callum has her bank card so that he can pay her bills. Comment Joanna could issue a civil claim against Robert to get him to repay the money she lent to him. There may be further civil...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...business, politics, any type of science or engineering, and even the arts. Jeannette M. Wing, Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (United States) and Head of Microsoft Research International Sounds great that ‘One can major [i.e. graduate] in computer science and do anything’, doesn’t it? Then again, isn’t this miles away from the view of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs