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Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...economical but, of course, critical, too. Whenever you locate reading materials, it is important to pause and go back to your assignment. Focus on the requirements and key points, and consider how the article may contribute to your preparation of a response. A simple template such as the one shown in Table 1 could be your starting point. Once you have a template like...
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...economic justification, getting a degree is a costly exercise. Students are now graduating with debts often well in excess of £50,000. Looking at this figure, you’ll see why understanding the cost of education after you’ve left school is so important. You need to consider taking courses that will help your future career, but you also need to balance this by making...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...economics may well be what to do with all the superfluous people? What will conscious humans do once we have highly intelligent non-conscious algorithms that can do almost everything better? (Harari, 2016, p. 370) But will machines do almost everything better? As you have seen, even with simple object recognition, there are significant gaps between human and machine...
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...economic rewards and material benefits, work helps to develop us as individuals, building our skills and improving mental well-being (status, confidence, self-esteem in doing a job well). Although employment can be stressful, difficult and exhausting at times, it can also be a source of satisfaction for many people. While being at work during periods of mental ill health...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...Economics Gabriele, who speaks both Italian and Portuguese as first languages and is a philosopher Li-Chia, whose first language is Mandarin Chinese and who is studying Archaeology. Activity 3 Listening to three students’ views Timing: Allow about 15 minutes VERENA DILL At the moment, I’m using corpora to analyse self-references. So, how to use them. For example, I...
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...economic impact. In the future, quantum computers will enable us to solve a range of complex problems that are currently intractable, potentially revolutionising key sectors including medicine, finance and the pharmaceutical industry. In this free course you will learn how quantum computers exploit quantum mechanical properties like superposition and entanglement to...
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...economic, cultural, technological and so on – and take a variety of forms including legal, financial, governmental and educational institutions. Issues of power are central when considering the role played by different stakeholders in planning IT systems and, as you saw at the end of the last section, stakeholders can enhance their power by coming together, mobilising...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...economical and sustainable water management. As the population increases, industries develop and the understanding of the health implications of pollutants grows. Pollution is defined as the introduction into the environment (water, air or land) of contaminants, the quantities, characteristics and duration of which are likely to be injurious to human, animal or plant...