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You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context...An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Population ageing: a global health crisis?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Population ageing: a global health crisis?

...managed to find work that enabled him to earn an above average income and live in his own apartment. However, as a gay migrant Muslim man he has found it hard to be accepted by his family and the predominantly Turkish community in which he lives. Although he increasingly finds he has nobody to turn to for support, he is reluctant to use state services. What factors do you...
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...managing the challenges of working in a multilingual and multicultural environment. Activity 28 Watch this video in which the Guidance company is introduced by group CEO Jan Grothusen. Select any statements that apply to the company from the list below. Narrator: Guidance, an internationally successful company based in the English midlands, was founded in 1991 as a...
Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...manageable for carers who are restricted in their free time or have the opportunity to do this at work. One of the study participants in the research suggested that the 5-minute snacking approach to physical activity would suit her during the working day. To facilitate this you might, for example, reduce sitting time at the desk, take a short walk at lunchtime, park...
Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design
Science, Maths & Technology

Can design by committee work? Making a case for open source design

...managed through trust and leadership. A resilient community of practice must be able to develop design leadership whose work and guidance is respected and appreciated even without the convenient meter of coding meritocracy. Scaling subjectivity It comes down to the deep paradox at the heart of design (whether for interface, architecture, product, etc.). We are trying to...
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...managing editor Helena Vieira during the Mobile Money and Financial Development Conference at LSE. Could you tell me briefly about your digital strategy? Ecobank is a pan-African bank. We’re in 33 markets in middle Africa. The aim of the bank has always been to foster inter-regional trade, inter-regional business. But with the change in digital banking coming in now,...
Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities
Nature & Environment

Brexit and Scotland’s fishing communities

...managed on an annual basis…'. Yes, the UK fleet has reciprocal access to EU waters, but they are far more reliant on our waters than we are on theirs – EU vessels fish six times more in UK waters than we fish in the “At the end of the six years, how does the government envisage us claiming a fairer share of the catches in our own waters without triggering punishment...
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...Managing Director at Morgan Stanley from 2008-9. Jonathan is a member of the board of Save the Children International. Jonathan has published three books: ‘Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland’, ‘The New Machiavelli, How to Wield Power in the Modern World’, and ‘Talking to Terrorists, How to End Armed Conflict’. The Rt. Hon. (William)...