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Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course should encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['Personal branding for career success' digital badge]...Introduction...
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...family. Tragedy arises because Creon is stubborn and sticks to the rules of the city, and Antigone is stubborn and sticks to the rules of honour of the family. Each has evaluated the situation in different ways. In a way, the two rules that they were using – ‘to obey the laws of the city’ and ‘to honour the family’ – are two perfectly understandable rules, but...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...family tree, so this might be something she could talk about. To prepare her, as a first step, she decides she is going to work on her social skills by speaking to people she meets in the school playground while waiting for the children, rather than waiting for others to make the first move. Did you notice that the steps they plan to take are designed around their own...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...families, in their communities and in the workplace. The aim is to create the conditions whereby everyone in Wales will have access to the Welsh language, and that every speaker, regardless of their level of ability, should be able to choose to use their Welsh language skills and receive encouragement and support to further develop their skills if they so wish, in an...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...family. “The lad came up to me and went: ‘I’m here on my own… I think I’m gay and I’m going to tell my parents about it tonight.’” In another instance, a woman who brought her “very grumpy” dad to a gig told Amos that his set had made her father rethink his views on gay people. “Oh my god, when you touch people on that level? What I’m doing is...
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...trees and you will actually manage the land and improve its fertility and its resilience.” The land rights extension was critical for the maintenance of the programme’s newly constructed, wider land terraces, which help retain water and prevent erosion and which quickly led to higher crop yields. Ultimately, the World Bank and its partners in China invested US$500...
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...family responsibilities and domestic activities, an increasing number of women are entering the labour market. This increase is evident in many countries and has been associated with an improvement in the relative earnings of women. This trend towards greater equality is evident in Table 1, which shows the ratio of female to male earnings in a number of countries over the...
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...families and entourage, the Hellanodikai, the fifty members of the Olympic council and the horses and chariots of the equestrian events. This mighty procession took one day and one night to cover the 36 kilometres that separate Elis from Olympia. [Figure 8 Locations of Elis and Olympia] Figure 8 Locations of Elis and Olympia Just before arriving, they stopped at the...