1,497 search results

Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...busy to recall the experience and so little conscious learning takes place. Of course, it's useful to carry out familiar activities ‘on auto pilot’ – without conscious attention. It's easy to miss out on important learning from unfamiliar activities too. I may become wrapped up in the activity itself or simply not notice the range and quality of the experience....
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...money for goods, and that buyers are able to exercise choice (to buy or not to buy, to buy this good rather than that one). ‘Market’ is therefore a politically charged term, unlike ‘industry’, shown, for example, by the prevalence in political debate of the expression ‘free market’. The focus in Section 2 will be on consumer demand for products and in...
What happens to you when you read?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What happens to you when you read?

...business partner Marley, on every one, implying Scrooge’s increasing dread, and also allowing the reader to empathise with that dread, almost experiencing it for ourselves. Dickens finishes this mini-scene by having Scrooge react to the emotion as he gets up in exasperation and walks across the room. The important thing to take away from this activity into the rest of...
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...money. Contents of an expert’s report are now quite tightly regulated (see Practice Direction (PD) 3.2), such that an expert must give details of: their qualifications the literature they have relied upon in forming their opinion what facts and instructions are material what facts are within their own knowledge who was involved in the preparation of the report a summary...
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...business, family or personal relationship. Providing a neutral and safe venue for negotiating For mediation to be successful there must be conditions conducive to discussion, exploration of options and possibilities, and negotiation. This point highlights the essence of the mediator’s art: to bring the different parties together in the same room, minimise any hostility...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...busy but not a bustling landscape and there is a distinct sense of measured movement in the human activities Brueghel portrays. The influence of the bright Mediterranean dawn is very much in evidence in the scene but possibly the ploughman sports the richer hues of the Northern school of painting. You may agree that the viewer is drawn into the picture and invited not...
Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...business situations the norm is to shake hands. [Described image] The best way of judging what to do and thereby avoiding appearing too formal is to follow the lead of others or wait to see whether the person you are meeting offers an outstretched hand or leans towards you...Week 1: How to say hello and goodbye: 2 Spanish vowels - In Spanish there are only five vowel...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...money’ industrialist but also a well-established community figure who is found murdered in a locked room. There is a closed circle of relations and associates with potential motives for the killing. Hercule Poirot, the series detective familiar to the reader, is necessarily on hand to assist the police and in the absence of his established sidekick (Captain Hastings), a...