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Voices from the Global South: an international field trip
Society, Politics & Law

Voices from the Global South: an international field trip

...out more about The Open University's Geography courses and qualifications. _ This is an invitation to: watch a series of six videos from countries across the Global South as part of the International virtual field trip reflect on your learning undertake some independent study. Introduction This series of videos offers a chance to embark on an ‘International virtual...
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Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...out know how to use a company’s WACC as a discount rate and discuss its drawbacks be able to calculate an appropriate discount rate by using the CAPM and discuss its drawbacks be able to use a spreadsheet to model a discounted cash flow analysis. Before we examine specific appraisal techniques, we shall review and expand on some of the principles underlying them. At...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...out before it becomes much more problematic. Dr. David Wang The big factor is usually training. Once you’ve gotten to the Olympics, you’ve put in the time, you’re there for a few weeks, there we tend to see more acute injuries. The overuse injuries usually develop right around now as you’re building up and finishing your preparations, because really it’s the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...out altogether. Between 1993 and 2007, sales outside Europe hence increased from 38 to 66 per cent while those in Europe declined from 28 to 12 per cent. Let’s take a look at the overall numbers. Between the early 1990s and the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis, British intra-European sales fluctuated around 7 to 8 per cent of total sales. German firms...
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How do you become British Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become British Prime Minister?

...out about The Open University's Politics courses and qualifications. Transcript Britain, like France, is a unitary state, but is a parliamentary democracy, not a semi-presidential system. British voters thus do not directly elect the government or the head of the government, the Prime Minister. And the head of state, the Monarch, is hereditary, apolitical, and not subject...
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Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh
History & The Arts

Why you shouldn't sniff at Winnie The Pooh

...out as the space and time for play and in which toys are the main objects and controlling devices of socialisation.” However, Milne’s books are more poignant and have a slightly different flavour, than other examples, such as Wind in the Willows (of which Milne was a great fan, writing a stage adaptation). They came after World War I, when many illusions about...
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Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...out. The first is that Dutch institutions are framed within a political culture of social democracy and based on strong egalitarian principles. The Dutch and Nordic countries have a shared emphasis on equality, reflected in the lack of pay differentials and a dominant workplace culture of flat leadership which is non-hierarchical and emphasises democratic practices. To...
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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...out’. To my secret disappointment, about half the lecture hall vigorously nodded in response. The reality is that Sacks’s role in my career was neither surprising nor particularly special. He inspired a generation of neuroscientists to see brain science as a gateway to our common humanity and humanity as central to the scientific study of the brain. This article was...
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