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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...careful management. What we do certainly know – given the recent catalogue of high-profile financial calamities – is that the failure to manage risks can have devastating and, on occasion, terminal outcomes for organisations...Understanding and managing risk: Glossary - * beta The beta of a share is a measure of its risk relative to the market as a whole (or its...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...adults in a circle on a stage Now set a five-minute timer and use the image and your initial reflections as a stimulus for a piece of free writing. Remember to write continuously, not solely describing the image, but using it as a starting point to tell a story of your own. At this stage, we are freeing up our thinking so let your writing take you in whatever direction it...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
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Money & Business

Risk management

...Care should be taken, however, where there is a small number of risks, where the risks are inter-related and where there is a number of large, but unlikely risks. Like most risk modelling it is recommended that you engage an expert. It should be remembered that as with all calculations, these models are only as good as their inputs. Moreover calculations, if assumptions...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...careful to explore the world as fully as I can because I cannot see everything and may be misled. The third pole is to take on fully the implications of the world's unknowability. This stance demands that I always carry an awareness that I will never know the world and must therefore always be trying to account for my own role in my perceptions of the world. Consciously...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...careful experimental work had established what others only suspected: expressed in modern scientific terms, certain atmospheric gases absorb infrared radiation with wavelengths in the range spanned by outgoing terrestrial radiation (about 4 to 100 μm; Figure 5). These are the greenhouse gases. Tyndall identified water vapour and CO2, but the list of natural greenhouse...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...careful thought was given to choosing sequences of values for the characters of the alphabet and numerals that would make it easy for a computer processor to perform common operations on them. (These encodings were preserved in the 8-bit system by simply padding out the leftmost bit with a 0.) To illustrate, let’s look at the 8-bit encoding of some of the lower-case and...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...caring responsibilities emotionally bind them to their place of enslavement? Did they just not have the same kinds of opportunities to abscond because of the nature of their work?...Session 3: Resistance: 3 ‘Women who struggle’: decolonisation and the Algerian War, 1954–62 - The French invaded Algeria in 1830. They expanded their presence, culminating in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...Adult Learning, Efrog Newydd, NY, Macmillan. Vygotsky, L.S. (1986) Thought and Language (wedi’i gyfieithu o’r Rwseg a’i ddiwygio a’i olygu gan A. Kozulin), Cambridge, MA, Gwasg MIT. Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of Practice: learning, meaning and identity, Caergrawnt, Gwasg Prifysgol Caergrawnt...Wythnos 2: Darganfod y cysylltiadau: egwyddorion a damcaniaethau ar...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs