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Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...Working capital management Bank overdrafts Bank loans Crowdfunding Peer-to-peer lending Crowdfunding LONG-TERM Retained earnings Bank loans Financial lease Hire purchase agreements Bond issuance Business angels and venture capital Stock issuance...Organisations and the financial system: 1.2 Internal sources of finance - Table 2 (a) summarises the sources of finance that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...work is still so relevant today...In an age where machines seem to be doing more and more ‘human’ tasks, we are all constantly grappling with the question: ‘what makes a human, human’? The Roman poet Ovid also asked this question – it was one of many big questions about the world that he asked which we are still struggling with today. Others, like ‘how did the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction
Digital & Computing

Integrated safety, health and environmental management: An introduction

...work through the co-ordinated actions of everyone. Integrate – SHE management is a multidisciplinary area embracing scientific, engineering, social and political issues. No individual can be expert in all of these disciplines, but the SHE manager should be able to appreciate the different perspectives and to recognise the trade-offs that are inevitable. Measure –...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...worked out mathematically? When you roll a die – assuming it’s fair – it’s equally likely to land on any of its six sides. And because there are six sides, your chance of throwing a six is one in six, or a sixth. Of course, that’s exactly the same as your chance of getting anything else, a one, two, three, four or five, because the die is fair. That may feel a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...work out so well in many instances. But it’s definitely – you see that the teen bedroom is kind of portrayed as a reflection of what the middle class hopes their children turns out to be. And of course the realities are always a bit muddier than that but these are ideals anyway that people could strive for. Laurie Taylor: And you interestingly say that what impels or...
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Article 10 mins
Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Mary Colwell - Earth in Vision

...worked for the BBC, ABC and independent companies across a career that started in the 1980’s. Mary has two science degrees from Manchester and Bristol universities. She published her first book “John Muir – The Scotsman who Saved America’s Wild Places” in 2015 and is a feature writer for The Tablet. She is currently walking 500 miles across Britain and Ireland...
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Video 20 mins
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...work in the long term. They encourage children to read for recognition, for reward, for their parents, their teachers and/or the school, but not for themselves. Reading for pleasure is more closely associated with intrinsic motivation; it is reading that children do for themselves at their own pace, with whom they choose and in their own way. Reading for pleasure is more...
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Article 10 mins
Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...works, by physical and biological processes; containment of sewage, cattle slurry and silage effluent living organisms disease-causing organisms (bacteria, viruses) human and animal wastes; certain industries (e.g. tanning, slaughtering) curtailed recreational use of rivers, lakes, etc. most commonly controlled with chlorine; seldom possible to remove all bacterial and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs