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Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...family over breakfast. It’s there as you check or reply to texts, tweets and emails on your phone (if you have a clever one) or your computer. And it carries on throughout the day, whether at work, while you study, or are at play. Language is such an important part of everyday life that it’s easy to take it for granted. In this course you will have a chance to stand...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...family’. Job families are groups of jobs that involve the same or similar kinds of work, and which therefore require the same or similar skills, attitudes and behaviours. Clustering jobs into families can make training planning and delivery more efficient, as well as being useful for other HRD activities, such as remuneration, reward and career progression. Individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course could encourage you to think about taking other courses. ['Learning from sport burnout and overtraining' digital
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...history of manipulating the environment to fit our needs will do. For a fuller discussion I have picked four examples: the Pont du Gard, a beautiful Roman bridge in the south of France; a disposable ballpoint pen; muskets; and the plant for making the chemical ammonia. This set will enlighten us concerning varied aspects of engineers' practice. Apart from their intrinsic...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...history and part of G at another. For example, investment in railways in the 1920s would be categorised as part of private investment (I ), whereas after railway nationalisation in the 1940s such investment would be categorised as part of government spending (G ). Keynes made the point that expenditure by the government on roads was equivalent to private investment in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...family to be able to learn how best to discharge the role that you've got. And I think that's the same from any of the, actually, senior positions. Because even one part of the mat is still a significant role. So, you know, I think leadership means you've got to have a very wide view of the world and you can't just stay within your comfort zone. JEAN HARTLEY Really...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Retail marketing
Money & Business

Retail marketing

...history and the development of human civilisations. However, until about half a century ago, retailers were at the end of the supply chain and their key function was to sell products offered by manufacturers. Retailers had some influence on the products made but much emphasis was placed on pushing (selling) manufactured goods. But a new approach to business emerged which...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...family trees while the second (Figure 6) shows who lives in which house. I certainly found that looking at these two diagrams made things a lot clearer for me, in particular the relationships between two different sets of connected things. Of course, these are the ways some chose to represent the situation and the diagrams do not include all the information given in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs