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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...English Dictionary defines investment as ‘the act of putting money, effort, time, etc. into something to make a profit or get an advantage’. The investment decision and consequent expenditure is a very important aspect of a business’ functioning. Given that these types of expenses are usually massive, the total amount is ‘capitalised’, which means that the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Software and the law
Science, Maths & Technology

Software and the law

...English, and pirated software has met local needs, the exception has been software for working in local languages – which use a variety of non-Roman scripts. Since the 1980s and the arrival of desktop computers, various individuals have created fonts to facilitate desktop publishing in local languages. Producing such fonts may take months or even years of effort – but...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Everyday ethics in professional life: social work as ethics work’, Ethics and Social Welfare, 10(1), pp. 35–52. BASW (British Association of Social Workers) (2014) The code of ethics for social work, statement of principles. Available at: https://www.basw.co.uk/resources/basw-code-ethics-social-work (Accessed: 20 August 2019) Beckett, C. and Horner, N. (2016)...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...everyday experience that discrimination remains a pervasive influence. So what could or should be done? Imagine that a racist employer would not take on any ethnic minority workers because he believed them lazy, less intelligent or less dependable than their white counterparts. In the looking-glass world of simplistic economic theory these attitudes would receive their...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Introducing computing and IT
Digital & Computing

Introducing computing and IT

...everyday life people tend to use these terms interchangeably, in reality they are two separate (although related) entities. The internet is a global network of networks: an internetwork (hence its name). It is the infrastructure that connects computers together. The web (short for world wide web), on the other hand, is a service that links files across computers, allowing...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Succeed in the workplace Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...English Heritage – in the grounds or conserving buildings maybe Shopping Buying as a job – maybe at a garden centre? Offer to be responsible for buying the stationery supplies at work Looking after other people Working at a healing garden Lead ‘walks for health’ at the weekends You should feel excited – and perhaps a little daunted – by some of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta
Society, Politics & Law

Bun-chùrsa mu bhith a’ dèanamh atharrachadh poilitigeach is sòisealta

...English and Welsh. Tha iomadh èiginn mu choinneimh na RA: àrainneachdail, eaconamach, poilitigeach, sòisealta is slàinte. Tha an cùrsa air-loidhne an-asgaidh seo a’ mìneachadh cuid de na prìomh sgilean saoranachd is am fiosrachadh a dh’fheumar gus eadar-theachd a dhèanamh san t-saoghal agus e ag atharrachadh. Bidh e a’ sgrùdadh mar a nithear atharrachadh gu...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...English as an Additional Language (EAL) provision, organise a visit. If they need to see PE in another key stage, encourage them to organise it. Do not do everything for them. Check their folders and paperwork regularly in mentor meetings, but they must check they have taught/observed the right lessons for writing up assignments or meeting standards themselves...Week 4:...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs