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Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...accountable for sustainability? Is executive compensation tied to those important sustainability issues? So those are the types of things that we talk about with companies. BOB BURTON: Those are really your role in sustainability. ANN STAUSBOLL Yes. BOB BURTON Along with your theoretical approach to how to pursue sustainability, for example, comes your personal approach...
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...account for approximately 20% of older persons (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2013). So far in this course, the focus has been on the extent of ageing at the global level. It is important not to treat the world just as one whole – there are important differences between countries, and you will explore this in the next activity. Activity 2...
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...accountability and transparency, I think has been transformational in terms of the delivery of policing services. And I think will continue to be. And I think all provide really good, powerful examples of how, when policing, engages with the world around it. And six opportunities that exist in technology, how they can make a tangible difference to the quality of service...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...accounts as a lens for considering three key questions: Who am I? Where do I belong? What do I do?...Census stories: Bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the major recent demographic changes in religion and ethnicity in the UK as revealed in the national census understand the...
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...accounts of their early experiences in schools student teachers’ concerns about the relevance of ITP (Individual Training Plan) course provision. Mentors and tutors both have a role in supporting student teachers in these aspects, but in sometimes quite different ways, as we will begin to explore throughout this course...Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student...
Making sense of ourselves
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of ourselves

...accounts for this, and we assume that square B may appear slightly darker than it is, because it is cast in shadow. However, equally, our visual system is more alert to more obvious, hard-line changes in colour (as demonstrated by the checkerboard, where individual squares are easily picked out) and less so to gradual colour changes (as demonstrated by shadow). For these...
Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...account of myself. 4 It’s a bit hit and miss. I have had some interviews where I think I have presented myself pretty well and others where I have barely strung a sensible sentence together. 5 Not great. I get very nervous before it and then when I get in the room, sometimes I let that get the better of me for the first half of the interview. 6 Pretty dire usually. I am...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...accounted for the change in cephalosporin consumption in the UK since 2007? [A line graph showing cephalosporin use in the UK between 2000 and 2015.] Figure 6a Cephalosporin use in the UK. (Data source: CDDEP, 2017) [A line graph showing cephalosporin use in South Africa between 2000 and 2015.] Figure 6b Cephalosporin use in South Africa. (Data source: CDDEP, 2017)...