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Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...economic and social concerns of stakeholders strategically and accord top management commitment to them. Apply the concept of value-added at both financial and operational levels. This will lead to a different sustainable supply chain philosophy. Consider end-to-end supply chains as value chains, and think about unexplored resource inefficiencies and opportunity costs at...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Children’s perspectives on play
Education & Development

Children’s perspectives on play

...economically distressed urban environments. The impetus for the research arose from a wish to listen to the voices of children, given that most published writing about children’s play reflects adults’ perspectives on children’s play, rather than children’s views. Describing what play meant for her, seven-year-old Angelica seems to capture something essential not...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...economic growth, as currently measured, and it is in their interests to see the road-building programme continue as this also increases the demand for cars. In the early 2000s English road building policies have, once more, been adopted as one solution to traffic congestion. Demand for new cars has also increased fuelled by a drop in their relative cost. One possible...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...economic stability. By identifying our strongest positive factors and reconnecting with those in times of crisis, the support and encouragement we receive can help us to be more resilient, providing a sense of purpose to help us recover, sustain and grow through a crisis. Worsley goes on to suggest that resilient adults will have identified at least three strong factors...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...economic practices: ‘Frugal at the dinner table. Frugal too, in the finance ministry’. How robust, in your view, is this analogy? Discussion As you saw in the introduction to this activity, analogies always break down. The analogy between German culinary preferences and economic practices does not seem strong. In a country as large and as varied as Germany, food...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...economics) high growth and low growth scenarios, allowing you to scope out the space in between. So that you can make significant progress in a short time this activity works through a process of single-axis scenario planning so that we are concerned only with two scenarios, a positive and a negative situation. [Described image] Figure 1: Responding to change factors You...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to minerals and rocks under the microscope

...economically when they are concentrated in mineral deposits. They often occur as vein mineralisation, deposited by hot, watery fluids passing through fractures, fault zones and permeable rocks. Some are formed by segregation processes in sulfur-rich magmatic systems. Mining followed by smelting of the sulfide minerals allows the metals to be extracted. Examples of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...economic activity during the period of analysis. Ratio analysis can be used in several different ways to provide useful insights. For example, the ratios for one accounting period can be compared with: the ratios from preceding period(s) the ratios of other segments within the company the ratios of competitors or other companies within the same industry industry...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs