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Digital thinking tools for better decision making Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Digital thinking tools for better decision making

...educated guesses. Now try to work out a problem using the Fermi approach. Activity 6 Solving a Fermi problem Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Estimate how many cats there are in the UK. (Remember: this is a rough estimate. You are not trying to get an exact count!) You will need to consider: How many people live in the UK. Roughly how many people live in an average...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...educated and middle class man. My characters drove cars. They were not starving. Therefore, they were not authentically African. But I must quickly add that I, too, am just as guilty in the question of the single story. A few years ago, I visited Mexico from the US. The political climate in the US at the time was tense and there were debates going on about immigration....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...education which may, in time, signal ‘the end for the traditional university’. To learn more about the potential for developments of this kind read the news article from The Guardian...Technology, innovation and management: 2 What is innovation? - As we noted in the introduction, Joseph Schumpeter, a seminal thinker on innovation and economics, argued that capitalism...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...education to enable them to meet their expenses. With the cost of higher education increasing in recent years, the Student Loans Company has become a major lender. Then there’s the high-cost credit market aimed mostly at people on low incomes. They provide high risk, unsecured lending to customers who have limited or no access to mainstream credit. As a reflection of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...education programs’, Journal of Physical Therapy Education, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 48–56. Heaney, C. A., Walker, N. C., Green, A. and Rostron, C. L. (2015) ‘Sport psychology education for sport injury rehabilitation professionals: A systematic review.’, Physical Therapy in Sport, vol. 16, pp. 72–9. Walker, N. and Heaney, C. (2013) ‘Psychological responses to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...education industries were beset with staff shortages and in some areas recruited from overseas. It is likely to take most employers longer to increase the quantity of skilled than unskilled labour. Skills may not be available in the locality and workers may have to be enticed to move from other jobs, involving periods of notice. New workers may have to be trained and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Emotions and emotional disorders
Health, Sports & Psychology

Emotions and emotional disorders

...education, and those living in urban environments. In the USA it is more common amongst young black people (Blazer et al., 1991), and there is evidence that it is more common in countries in which there is war or political oppression than in countries at peace (Compton et al., 1991). [Described image] Figure 11 Chronic worry and anxiety characterise GAD. Why might GAD be...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...education. Founded in 1993, its aim is to support critical humanitarian efforts across the world through translation. With more than 3,800 translators working in over 190 language pairs, TWB have translated over 40 million words. Another interesting volunteer translation project is the TED Translation programme, where volunteers subtitle TED Talks so they are available in...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs