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Starting your small business
Money & Business

Starting your small business

...thinking about setting up a small new business, or becoming self-employed...Starting your small business is an introductory course for anyone who has recently set up a business or anyone who is thinking of setting up a small business or becoming self-employed. The course covers topics including structures, customers and responsibilities and looks at the common features...
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Article 5 mins
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...thinking about race. Gloria Ladson-Billings describes its emergence to counter a positivist liberal approach in Law. The slow pace of legal reform in the United States led thinkers to put forward the idea that racism is normal in American society. (An argument that is becoming more mainstream now.) Critical Race Theory particularly wanted to look at the way education...
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Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...think are the main similarities between the arguments in this case study and the second paragraph of ‘The new economy’ quotation discussed in Section 1? Figure 2 illustrates a number of different makes of digital camera. What other products do you normally associate with the manufacturers of these cameras? [Figure 2] Copyright © IPC Media Ltd © Copyright © IPC...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Sound for music technology: An introduction
Science, Maths & Technology

Sound for music technology: An introduction

...system or a car radio rather than in a concert hall. In this case your music is relayed to you via various technological devices; well before the music reaches a compact disc (CD) or radio it will have been manipulated in various way using studio devices for recording, mixing and mastering. From the traditional acoustic instruments to the modern computer-based sampler or...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...think about the next few years, make sure you’re planning ahead for the financial impact of future events and are prepared for pitfalls and surprises. Where you’d like to end up (Session 3). You’ll look ahead to your later life, pin down your ideal retirement lifestyle and make sure you’ve set a clear course towards it. Watch the video where Legal & General’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...think about how to develop rapport, and allows you to plan for, and reflect on, your everyday interactions in order to build rapport effectively. It focuses on conversations that might be considered ‘difficult’, and encourages effective listening and effective diagnosis of interpersonal behaviour....Sure, I know how to talk to people!: Introduction - Good...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The Bletchley Park connection
History & The Arts

The Bletchley Park connection

...system was code-named ‘Ultra’, and was one of the best-kept secrets of the Second World War. From a historian’s point of view, the exposure of Ultra has been a lesson in how cautious we must be in analysing historical evidence and drawing conclusions about what happened. A good example of this point concerns the hunt for the German battleship, the Bismarck, in the...
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Marketing communications as a strategic function
Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

...thinking risks being short to medium term because the people and organisations involved are constantly changing. Traditional rivalries between marketing communications disciplines (such as media advertising and public relations), and compartmentalised thinking amongst both clients and their agencies, have acted as a barrier to a holistic approach to the consumer. Schultz,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs