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Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...money (pence, pounds, whatever) they spent in 2007, they would have spent 120.8 units of money in 2008 if they had bought the same amount. So a way of representing this price change would have been to define an index for the gas price such that it takes the value 100 for 2007, and 120.8 for 2008. Notice that the value of the gas price index for 2008 could be calculated as...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...businesses to do constrained tasks. And therefore it's really important to have a view of how you're motivated as an individual so that you can find the right roles, find the right place for yourself within the organisation, find the right approach to market yourself, to promote yourself to a client, a manager, a project leader, and to find other ways of exploiting your...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Understanding children: babies being heard
Education & Development

Understanding children: babies being heard

...busy and full of people, I think she is going to be the sort of child who enjoys company. Eamon: At first I was afraid to hold her in case I was too rough. She seemed so delicate. But it felt so natural once I did. I'll never forget the smell and feel of her skin and hair – really soft. I remember all the different sounds she made – grunts when well fed; snuffles just...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...businesses needing to demonstrate that they are working with other people. (Sercombe, 2010, p. 81) The LEAP framework for project planning also emphasises the importance of partnership as one of its five principles for project working (The Scottish Government, 2007). In this course you will be examining the range of issues that partnership working presents for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...Business, Innovation & Skills (2015) Business Population Estimates for the UK and Regions, Statistical Release, 14 October. Fisher, J. (2012) ‘Process of personal transition’ [Online]. Available at www.businessballs.com/personalchangeprocess.htm (Accessed 6 September 2021). Herrman, H. et al. (2011) ‘What is resilience?’, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 56(5), pp....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are young men worldwide experiencing mental health crises?

...Money was tight, of course, but he was true to his responsibilities. He taught during the day and worked behind the bar in a pub at night. On Fridays he’d do the night shift in a bowling alley, 6pm until 6am. He’d sleep in the day and go back to do the overnight again on Saturday. Then a lunchtime shift in a pub on Sunday, a bit of rest, and back to school Monday...
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Article 15 mins
Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Dr Benny Peiser - Stories of Change

...money on that. RH: So around that sort of time I met John Houghton, who went on to become Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Science Working Group and he was also struggling with describing the risks at the time, he didn’t want to overhype it, but he was saying, ‘We feel that the way the statistics are stacking up it looks like humans have had an...
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Leo Tolstoy on King Lear
History & The Arts

Leo Tolstoy on King Lear

...business and divide his kingdom between his daughters. In order to know how much he should give to each daughter, he announces that to the one who says she loves him most he will give most. The eldest daughter, Goneril, says that words can not express the extent of her love, that she loves her father more than eyesight, space, and liberty, loves him so much that it "makes...
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