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5 tips on financially thriving
Money & Business

5 tips on financially thriving

...taught how to calculate and solve equations but we are not necessarily taught how to manage our moeny. Most adults have never had credit ratings, mortgages or interest rates explained to them but it's never too late to learn anything. Below are some of the free courses and articles to help you continue your journey. Start your financial learning journey on OpenLearn...
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Article 10 mins
What is technology?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is technology?

...innovating, managing, manufacturing, modelling, and systems thinking. But technology also gives us various products which can be used for good or ill or where the benefits are disputed and similarly the processes involved in producing and using technology means that we should all take an interest in whether it provides us and everyone else with a sustainable future....
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Article 5 mins
5 tried-and-tested study tips for dyslexic students
Education & Development

5 tried-and-tested study tips for dyslexic students

...manageable chunks. One technique for this is the pomodoro technique. This involves working in 25-minute bursts with 5-minute breaks. You don’t have to use these timings: adapt it for what works for you. There are even apps that can help. 5 Use the support on offer [Male student in headphones making video call using laptop] It can be all too easy to try and find all the...
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Article 5 mins
COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Making decisions based on flawed statistics

...managing the COVID-19 disease.’ It might be relevant to note that the study authors are experts in biology and medicine, such as being affiliated with the Salford Royal Hospital, but modelling an epidemic requires epidemiology expertise. The USA is similar to the UK in the sense that both countries have had a very high total number of deaths from COVID-19, and a number...
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Article 10 mins
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...Introduction - This week you will consider how the relationship between mentor and mentee may change and develop over time, drawing on the concept of mentoring as a continuum, as discussed in Week 2. Over time, the relationship between mentor and mentee will change and develop. As part of this change, the mentor may move towards a coaching role. This is seen as a role...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Law and change: Scottish legal heroes Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Law and change: Scottish legal heroes

...management, Operation Clean Sweep. The charity has worked on a number of projects including raising awareness of the environmental issues caused by the use of plastic cotton buds. Working at a local level they produce evidence and use this to lobby for change, both within the plastics industry and within the law. Working with other organisations their campaigns for change...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...projects of management, rather than rule, as an economic framing and economic ends replace political ones, a range of concerns becomes subsumed to the project of capital enhancement, recede altogether, or are radically transformed as they are ‘economized’. These include justice (and its subelements [sic], such as liberty, equality, fairness), individual and popular...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty
Money & Business

Decision trees and dealing with uncertainty

...Introduction - This course is concerned with using decision trees to simplify and formulate business decisions, typically using financial information. As decisions affect the future well-being of an organisation, they almost always rely on some form of forecast information. In this course, you will consider the subject of uncertainty in a financial context and meet a few...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs