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Understanding mortgages
Money & Business

Understanding mortgages

...types of mortgage products available and the interest rates that apply to them know the benefits in proactively managing your mortgage – for example by periodically moving from one product to another be able to understand the various costs involved in buying property know the risks involved in having a mortgage and how to manage these. The first section will look at the...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Supply chain sustainability
Money & Business

Supply chain sustainability

...type of social issues that may affect your supply chain performance. Specifically, we will discuss the impact of poor performance of organisations with regards to their own staff and suppliers, both direct (tier one) and indirect suppliers (tier two up to the nth tier). Let’s begin our discussion by looking at the subject of ethics...Supply chain sustainability: 4.1...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...types: Self Assessment Questions (SAQs) and Activities. SAQs test your understanding of the key concepts and ‘set’ answers are provided to compare your answers to. Activities examine how you think about situations you face using those same concepts. There are no ‘set’ answers to these Activities as they are personal to you. Indeed the best opportunities to...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...types of cinema, which attracted different clienteles, existed in British cities: prestigious city-centre cinemas, which showed first-run films and were expensive; new, luxurious suburban cinemas, attracting the local middle-class and skilled working-class families; and cheap, inner-city cinemas, located in older working-class neighbourhoods and often referred to as...
Retirement planning made easy
Money & Business

Retirement planning made easy

...types of pension products and it’s important to understand what you have, as this will affect how it can be accessed and ensure you don’t lose any valuable benefits. This video explains the different types of pensions. Occupational and personal pensions are collectively known as private pensions to distinguish them from the state pension. Occupational, or work-based...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Managing my money for young adults Badge icon
Money & Business

Managing my money for young adults

...type of contracts? JONQUIL LOWE: Well, provided you're happy with that flexibility, and for many young people, that might be perfect if you've got another source of income or you're studying and you just want to pick up odd hours here and there, then they may be perfect. But if you've got regular outgoings and you haven't got another source of income, then it can make...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)
Money & Business

Enacting European Citizenship (ENACT)

...type of work they perform, these groups often find themselves in situations where their ‘citizenship’ is called into question. However, if we put that momentarily aside and look at what they did in Brussels, we can see that their actions are all forms of active political engagement and participation to articulate and claim rights. What does this concretely mean in...
An introduction to web applications architecture
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to web applications architecture

...type of structuring reflects high-level decisions that are difficult to change later because they determine software-level decisions. It is thus difficult to change the architecture of a system without starting the design from the beginning. Activity 1 Defining ‘system architecture’ Timing: Allow 15 minutes to complete this activity Produce your own definition in...