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Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...de Responsabilidad Limitada (SL or SRL) JAPAN Kabushiki Kaisha (KK) Godo Kaisha (GK) Private limited companies cannot list their shares on a stock exchange because their shares are not allowed to be traded by the investing public. Shareholders of private limited companies usually must ask permission from the other shareholders in the company to sell their shares to a new...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...concept in 1969; he recognised four basic degrees of intimate, personal, social and public space. Activity 6 What is your personal space limit? Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Watch up until 2 minutes 45 seconds of the following video in which a comedian tests Hall’s four degrees of space with members of the public. This clip is not a scientific experiment but its...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...concept of ‘right conduct’ and the Te conduct in the Tao Te Ching of Lao Tse. Ethics derives from the Greek word ethos meaning ‘character’. Participant answer 2: Ethics is about balancing between rights and wrongs, rights and responsibilities, individual and society – the underlying concept of ‘good’ and how we can achieve the best possible balance of good...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...concepts used in a demand-and-supply model. Watch the video now, then answer the question that follows. Using a model of demand and supply to understand house prices – Part 1 NARRATOR The model of demand and supply looks at the relationship between the price and the quantity of something that buyers will want to buy and sellers will want to sell. The amount of property...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. He was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of...
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Audio 5 mins
Legal skills and debates in Scotland Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Legal skills and debates in Scotland

...concept of natural law, arguing for a rational man-made view of law. They asked the question: what is the use of law? And their answer was that its purpose was to work towards the greatest good for the greatest number of people and to minimise suffering. This became known as utilitarianism, but what does this theory mean in practice? The following activity provides you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: skills for digital transformation

...concept is relatively new. So, what it means in the same way that you and I can read books and understand what these words mean, we get to the same degree of confidence with data. I think it's fair to say that a majority of people either don't think about data as being part of their job, or if they do, it's a kind of necessary evil or an inconvenience. It makes their life...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Introduction to quantum computing
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to quantum computing

...concepts, they provide the foundation for grasping quantum computing. Essential concept to pay close attention to are quantum superposition and quantum entanglement, two of the most fascinating and fundamental phenomena in quantum mechanics. Finally, the course concludes with an overview of the technologies driving real-world quantum computing, exploring how researchers...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs