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Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...care of the web browser.) From the beginning, Brin and Page had a more technological approach and had been friends since their studies at Stanford, whereas Schmidt brought his business experience as he had been already a CEO of another large organisation in the IT (information technology) industry. Another way of looking at collective leadership is through the lens of...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...Careful management of trade payables can result in suppliers funding the business in the short term. After startup, a business uses its existing cash to support future growth by increasing its investment in non-current assets. Further sources of finance may be necessary to supplement equity finance. This process increases the size of a company's balance sheet. Debt...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...careful to involve members of your team in making decisions about matters that affect them, they will be more likely to cooperate with you and with each other. Creating ‘stability zones’. These are areas of work over which you and members of your work group have some control, or a measure of control. Being alert to the actual demands being made on you and those in...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Languages

How to learn a language

...adult, the only way I knew how was to get a textbook and start memorising words. Needless to say, I didn’t learn much at first. Over the years, as I learned more languages, I began to notice new things that worked – often discovering them by accident. When I trained as a language teacher, I discovered many formal language teaching methodologies, such as the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing employability through sport and physical activity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Developing employability through sport and physical activity

...care every day, and different parents, different teachers, school governors. So there’s lots and lots of different people that we have to be able to work with and be respectful to and, again, try to work efficiently with everybody within our organization and outside of our organization as well. And I think if I hadn’t had that experience in America with those lots of...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...care of all the necessary content that you need to take on and it’s a way to skip your way through the first year of university by accomplishing all these gather the language kind of business that would be cool. I’d be okay with that. That hurts the business models of higher ed in a lot of cases, not so much an institution like mine, but the bigger ones. But no, I...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Teaching the First World War
Education & Development

Teaching the First World War

...adult life as an intellectual to decontaminating German history, to overcoming the legacy, the horrific legacy of Nazi criminality, and that’s where I think the story starts to go slightly awry. I mean the 1912 war council is not a council at which war was planned, or its timing was established, and I’m afraid the most powerful statement about this council is one...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...care to study occurs in just the same way in a steadily moving ship as in a stationary ship. The underlying physical laws and fundamental constants must therefore be exactly the same for all uniformly moving (or stationary) observers. This fact, which dozing train passengers may accept with gratitude, is the central idea of the theory of special relativity. Indeed, it is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs