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Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...creative of any time in the history of mankind. (Kennedy, 1966) This speech took place decades ago, but it seems that in every decade since, something of note has made that decade ‘interesting’ – whether it be man setting foot on the moon, birth control pills, DNA sequencing, the Internet, fibre optics, mobile phones, GPS, online shopping, social media, or services...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...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: Course image: Dana Berry / Skyworks Digital / CfA Week 1 Figures 1, 2, 8, 9,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...creative and strategic thinking ability Activities Creating a shared vision Engendering organisational commitment Caring for subordinates Driving and managing change Problem solving (Adapted from Pearson-Goff and Herrington, 2013, pp. 20–21) To put this in some context, it is worth considering comments made by Edward Flynn, a former chief of police in Milwaukee, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...writing (2004) the dam was near completion. The scheme is enormously popular with the dam contractors and with political parties in those local Indian states which will benefit from the extra water and electricity. It is also popular with those who have had to walk miles to collect water each day and who do not have enough water to irrigate their crops. It is not popular,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...writing was for portfolios from June 2015. You can also access up to date information on FTSE WMA Private investor index series asset allocation. Table 3: FTSE/WMA model portfolio as at June 2015 MODEL PORTFOLIO Conservative (%) Income (%) Balanced (%) Growth(%) Underlying asset index UK equities 19 35 37.5 40 FTSE All-Share Non-UK equities 11 17.5 30 37.5 FTSE All World....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...writing books and teaching materials for practitioners in the school sector, or involvement in large national research projects. (adapted Murray, 2008) Across all of Murray’s points it is possible to identify the common thread of knowledge creation, dissemination and questioning. For her, a tutor is someone who is at all times aware of the assumptions, beliefs and...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...write Jenny Radesky and her colleague Barry Zuckerman in their study of digital play. Children this young are still developing the ability to choose what to pay attention to and what to ignore, and they have trouble generalising from symbolic representations to the real world. Preschool-aged children need to interact with actual physical objects in order to develop their...
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Article 5 mins
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...write that ‘the most basic … architectonic distinction that structure[s] the law of war is the radical separation of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello . The lawfulness of war has no bearing on the proper conduct of war’ (2008, p. 20). It is often suggested that the JaB and JiB conditions also apply most directly to different groups of people. Statesmen and politicians...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs