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Developing career resilience Badge icon
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
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...economic burden of ADHD’, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 3(1), p. 5. Moffitt, T.E., Houts, R., Asherson, P. et al. (2015) ‘Is adult ADHD a childhood-onset neurodevelopmental disorder? Evidence from a four-decade longitudinal cohort study’, The American Journal of Psychiatry, 172(10), pp. 967–977. Mofokeng, M. and van der Wath, A.E. (2017)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...economical way. Assignments can be a very useful starting point for producing summaries. It can be very useful to look through them as you revise, and compare exam and assignment questions on the same topic. How do the questions differ? What would the key differences be between an assignment and an exam answer on the same topic? Think how you could use these ideas in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...economic stranglehold. (After Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in 1805, Napoleon accepted that he could not defeat Britain at sea.) In 1807 he sent French troops through Portugal with the co-operation of the corrupt Spanish minister, Manuel Godoy (‘the Prince of Peace’), in order to close Lisbon to British trade, enforce the Continental Blockade and break Britain's links...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs