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Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...world record for the 1500 m race. He completed this distance in 3 minutes 26 seconds. Work out: (a) his (average) speed in miles per hour for the 1 mile race; (b) his (average) speed in kilometres per hour for the 1500 metre race; (c) compare (a) and (b). In which race was his (average) speed faster assuming that 1.61 km = 1 mile? Answer (a) To find the speed in miles per...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...world. Even for larger organisations – particularly those with large daily flows of business and a high number of suppliers, such as supermarkets – there is exposure to the risk of mismanagement of the cash flows arising from business operations...Liquidity management: 1.2 Liquidity management: structuring the balance sheet - The last thing any organisation wants to...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring the relationship between anxiety and depression

...World Health Organization, April 2019. Available online at: https://icd.who.int/browse11/l-m/en#/http://id.who.int/icd/entity/314468192 (Accessed 09-07-2019). Jarvis, D. (2017) ‘Stressed teachers offered electric shock therapy to combat anxiety and depression’, The Telegraph, July 1. Available at:
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...world, groups are searching for a new kind of politics; a way to make politics more inclusive and less confrontational, rather than something top-down – ‘leaders’ (those people able to survive the political fight) fighting in a ‘battle’ of ideas. Can there be bottom-up ‘leadership’ – a wider group of people engaged in constructive dialogue, through which...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...world. In 1870 van Nencki, working at the University of Basle, showed that in the body salicin is converted to salicylic acid. As natural products such as salicin usually only occur in small amounts and are often difficult to synthesise, a common strategy is to find a related compound that can easily be made in large amounts in the laboratory. In this case, salicylic acid...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...world where resources are finite, the emphasis may be on doing only what has to be done, and even this will vary according to the philosophy and approach of different social work departments. In the next section you will consider a framework to assist with such decisions...Social work law and UK regulation: 4.1 A decision-making framework - The concept of a
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...world situations. You will explore examples of how organisations have, variously, tried to develop, adopt, adapt to or even ignore innovations in relation to environmental management. As noted above, there are many millions of organisations in existence. Many are themselves highly innovative, and many adopt successful innovations developed from others but are themselves...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...world of constant busyness where time is always short and never enough, where we are bombarded all day long by ‘input’ to our bodies and minds – buy this, do that, look at this, listen to this, be better, and so on. In reducing stress and the impact of it on our bodies, drawing boundaries can be fundamental. There are many things we can do to reduce what gets inside...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs