2,302 search results
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...family, friends or their own savings. These types of funding will not be appropriate to sustain the complex business plans of established companies. Understanding the basic sources of finance and their features is essential for successful financial decision making and business success, since identifying the best and most appropriate available sources is a vital step in...
View course Organisations and the financial system
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...family’s ice creams, holiday or car, in internal marketing contexts it is often not as clear who is paying and how much is being paid for the services or goods supplied. If you are a budget holder, you will know what items are charged to your budget. But if you are not the budget holder you may have little or no idea of what internal services actually cost. Activity 1...
View course Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...family law. In addition, the use of LLMs also poses several potential legal risks, which have the potential to arise when using them for general queries, i.e., including for non-legal queries. For example: Data protection and confidentiality There is a significant risk that sensitive information included within a user prompt, such as confidential business information,...
View article Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Article 20 mins
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...family Bovidae smaller than sheep or goats, but some deer (family Cervidae) are less than a tenth of that size as adults. Some tropical deer, notably species of mouse deer Tragulus, weigh only 1–2 kg, well within the range of size of mammals that can become torpid, but none is known to do so. One reason might be that substantial changes in body temperature would kill...
View course Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...history of humanity, has ever uttered this exact sentence before me today. Yet we all understand what it means. We must therefore all possess some machinery for making up new meanings out of smaller parts in real time. This is what is known as the generative capacity of language; the ability to make new meanings by recombining units. The vervet system is not generative,...
View course From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...family life, are viewed as beyond the direct control of the state and its institutions. (Source: adapted from Bromley, 2001) Nation states have long been viewed as the basic building block of authoritative decision making. If politics is considered as decision making at the level of society as a whole – the activity that delivers collectively binding decisions for...
View course Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Modern slavery
Society, Politics & Law

Modern slavery

...families and friends. They could be doctors, actors, teachers, bookkeepers, bankers, agents, farmers, actuaries, philosophers. But they did not have the legal standing of free people: the capacity to have rights in law, to own property, to make contracts, marriages and wills, to sue and be sued in the civil courts. (Allain, 2012, p. 13) Slavery continued in the Middle...
View course Modern slavery
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Human rights and law
Society, Politics & Law

Human rights and law

...family life, home and correspondence 9 Freedom of thought, conscience and religion 10 Freedom to receive and impart ideas and information 11 Freedom of association 12 Right to marry and found a family 13 Right to an effective remedy 14 Right to enjoy other Convention rights without discrimination Protocol 1 Article 1* Right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions Protocol 1...
View course Human rights and law
Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs