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Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...change a team structure to suit the needs of the project, but the possibility of doing so in itself depends on the constraints imposed by the organisation running the project or by the client who has commissioned the project. Another major factor in how the project team works together is whether they are collocated or not. Virtual teams are increasingly common, where...
You and your money
Money & Business

You and your money

...changing, social and economic context...An important aspect of personal finance is the way in which individuals and households manage their debt, how much it costs and the different types of credit they can or cannot access. This free course, You and your money, explores these issues, with respect to the wider, changing, social and economic context....You and your money:...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...changes over time. This might be due to different expectations of young people within society or changing understandings of their needs and interests. Work with young people can be seen at different times as a way of managing their behaviour, providing a safe environment within which they can prepare for their role in adult life, or offering a means of support into or...
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Society, Politics & Law

George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

...change. However, he had more faith in the patriotic decency of the ‘common people’ than in the ‘Europeanised’ English intelligentsia who, Orwell claimed, ‘took their cookery from Paris and their opinions from Moscow’ (Orwell, 1941, p. 48). Owell set out an agenda for a very ‘English’ political revolution. Writing in 1941 (when the end of the Second World...
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...change accelerates, marketers must make increasingly risky bets on the future in order to have a chance of success. Such marketers must understand customers better than customers understand themselves. Satisfying – means providing products and services that meet needs effectively. Marketing has been criticised for creating artificial needs (O’Shaughnessy and...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...changes its official interest rate or 'Bank Rate' as it's known. RYAN Oh yes, I've heard about Bank Rate on the news. JONQUIL That's right. So, tracker accounts are a type of variable rate savings account. RYAN Variable rate? JONQUIL Yup. Variable rate simply means the interest rate tends to change over time. The changes are broadly in response to changes in Bank Rate,...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...changed beyond recognition. The first cases of the virus we now call COVID-19 were detected in China’s Hubei Province at the end of December 2019. Now, for most of us, the virus affects everything we do – and don’t do. It’s all we hear about on the news, but it can be difficult to distill the information we really need to know. Where did COVID-19 come from? We...
Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution
Society, Politics & Law

Fair shares? Why sharing needs a democratic revolution

...change, says Chris Martin...The rapidly growing influence of Silicon Valley owners over sharing economy platforms is a troubling development. The growing strength and pervasiveness of these platforms means their owners have significant power to impose their visions of what it means to be a citizen or worker in cities across the globe. [An honesty box selling jams and...