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Free digital, numeracy and employability courses to build your skills
Education & Development

Free digital, numeracy and employability courses to build your skills

...business...[Logo for the UK department for education] Digital, numeracy and employability skills are among those that are most sought after by employers, and can help you progress in work and boost your job prospects. Digital skills can be anything from using social media and staying safe online to coding, programming or digital marketing. These are a small selection of...
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How do we move towards racial equality?
Education & Development

How do we move towards racial equality?

...in WELS faculty. The focus of the discussions provide insight into the experiences of Tessy Mbofung, People Business Partner for WELS, Anthony Gunther, Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead for Childhood and Youth Studies in the school of Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport (ECYS) Eric Addae Kyeremeh, Head of School for Education, Childhood, Youth and Sport (ECYS)....
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Video 30 mins
All my own work
Education & Development

All my own work

...busy life. Can you help her make the right decisions? [All my own work launch image] Find out more resources to help you prepare for your assignments: View activities on topics such as Avoiding Plagiarism and Referencing in our 'Being Digital' library. Sign up to events, such as live tutorials about referencing, via our Library Services. Find information on developing...
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Activity 10 mins
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Business School) on issues such as the ethics of social marketing, branding and advertising, and the morality of shocking or scaring people into changing their behaviour for the better. This material forms part of The Open University course B324 Marketing and society... Social marketing A short introduction to the album. What is social marketing? Michaela Firth in...
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Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping
Money & Business

Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping

...business can help to aggregate rather than segregate the multiple areas of focus. Firms could choice edit the clothing they offer (much like the successful model that retailers Aldi and Lidl have pioneered) to reduce choice complexity and overload. Consumers don’t necessarily dislike less choice, and doing so might counteract some of the negative reasoning shoppers use...
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Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?
Digital & Computing

Spectre and Meltdown: What do you need to know about the chip security flaws?

...business computer in the world could be vulnerable to having sensitive data including passwords stolen. The cloud servers that store websites and other internet data are also at risk. This is one of the biggest cyber security vulnerabilities we’re ever seen in terms of the potential impact to personal, business and infrastructure computer systems. What’s more, because...
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Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...business with the organisation required to cease trading, wind up the business and distribute the residual assets to creditors in accordance with their ranking. Alternatively, a liquidity crisis could result in a major restructuring of the financial base of the organisation – either through the taking on of new debt or through a new share issue. The way liquidity risk...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting
Money & Business

It's 1892, and the future's bright for gas lighting

...business was steady, and was going on at the usual average of the past twelve years. During the last twelve years the average increase was 3.43 and for the past year it was 3.76. As to the question of electric light, the directors had gone very carefully into the effect of it upon the consumption of gas, and he proceeded to give the results. The most important electric...
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