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Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...write-offs after it quit the rail maintenance business were compounded by problems at its accommodation services division. […] The company said it had suffered ‘a substantial outflow of cash’ as it paid debts accumulated from its exit of rail maintenance in 2003 and the lower construction volumes in accommodation services. […] Chief executive Kevin Hyde said,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...writing the ratio of prices in pounds sterling to prices in euros is two to three (2 : 3). What is the equivalent price in pounds for a coat costing 150 euros? Answer 3 euros are equivalent to 2 pounds. This means that So price in pounds = 2/3 × price in euros = 2/3 × 150 = 100 The equivalent price of the coat is £100...Ratio, proportion and percentages: 1.2.1 Try some...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982, London, Faber. Melville, A.D. (trans.) (1986) Ovid: Metamorphoses, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Riffaterre, M. (1986) ‘Textuality: W.H. Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’’ in Caws, M.A. (ed.) Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, New York, MLA. Spender, S. (1951) World within World, London, Hamish Hamilton....
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2
Health, Sports & Psychology

Promoting the effective management of children’s pain – part 2

...writing in a notebook or on your computer or tablet. There will also be free response box options inside the activities. Please note anything you add into these boxes will be saved for you to return to, provided you are signed into OpenLearn and enrolled on the course. The information saved is only accessible to you and cannot be viewed by anyone else. At the end of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...Writing in the fourth century BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was responsible for some of the earliest views on justice. Aristotle believed that a just law was one that both encouraged individual freedom and enabled people to live peacefully. From society’s perspective, key to this was allowing people to fulfil themselves in society. In considering perspectives on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...write down some key words that spring to mind when you think of the term ‘heritage’. Now try to write down some of the sorts of things that you think could be described as heritage. Save this list so that you can refer to it later on. Discussion Summing up what you think heritage is may not have been as easy as you thought it might be. Perhaps you wrote down something...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introducing social work: a starter kit
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing social work: a starter kit

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Images Figure 1: © SolStock/iStock Figure 2: © SilviaJansen/Getty Images...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Bill McKibben - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Bill McKibben - Stories of Change

...creativity. Sometimes we need to spend our bodies and go to jail. What’s different, perhaps, about this movement is that it’s the first one a) to be on a global scale and b) to arise in the time of social media. At 350.org, which we started seven years ago with nothing – myself and seven college undergraduates – has grown to the point where it now has held, we...
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