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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...simple terms, it is a short-term way for a business to release funds that are blocked in the form of unpaid trade receivables by selling those debts on to a third-party factoring company at a discount. Debt factoring is particularly suitable to industries in which the production process is characterised by consistent delays in receiving payments for goods sold and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...simple rules for working it out. Some organizations, for example, say that if you're working and in their pension scheme for 40 years, you get a guaranteed 2/3, or 40/60, of your final or average salary paid for the rest of your life. And if you work for them for less than 40 years, you simply get a smaller proportion of it. You're lucky if you have a pension like this...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...simple issue to debate at any given time, and they are routinely faced with limited resources. In effect, decision makers have to prioritise. Scientists therefore need to communicate their science clearly and within the context of ‘real-world’ challenges. At times this may require them not to communicate, i.e. to be selective about which scientific evidence is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The use of force in international law
Society, Politics & Law

The use of force in international law

...Code. It is approximately 13 minutes long. Narrator: It’s important to know international humanitarian law, but it’s even more important to obey it and make sure that others obey it as well. In fact, this is a matter of life and death. People have been waging war since time immemorial. When an armed conflict breaks out, the law of the jungle is paramount, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...simple questions. There are many contexts in our daily lives when we could answer them well enough. We speak common languages with people around us (and often with the same accent). Many of us live in neighbourhoods and recognise ‘neighbours’ as a distinctive group to which we belong. If we pray regularly in a mosque or church then we might identify ourselves with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...codes with her device? What does the tone of Knox’s list convey, and what does this tell us about detective fiction and its readers? Do such ‘rules’ alone tell us anything about history and context? Or do they simply relate to formal expectations of the genre? How many of these rules might still usefully apply today? Discussion One possible answer to Question 3: The...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to crime and criminology
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to crime and criminology

...codes or codes of expected public conduct. Only some norm violations are made into crimes, however. For example, graffiti is a crime when it appears without permission on public property. It is not a crime, however, if someone were to decorate the outside of their own home with graffiti-style images (although this may be contested by their neighbours, especially if it led...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
What was Lewis Carroll like?
History & The Arts

What was Lewis Carroll like?

...simple and open that there was no room in them for self-consciousness, and I have often heard him jest at his own misfortune, with a comic wonder at it. The personal characteristic that you would notice most on meeting Lewis Carroll was his extreme shyness. With children, of course, he was not nearly so reserved, but in the society of people of maturer age he was almost...
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Article 10 mins