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Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...becomes available – this is a common reason for forming a partnership. A partnership is also a means of sharing the risks and management of the business. In the eyes of the law, the partners of a general partnership: are agents of the business, which allows the partners to manage the business and enter into contracts on behalf of the business have joint and several...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to finite element analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to finite element analysis

...become Captain aboard the Blue Marlin [The world’s largest transporter vessel at the time of original publication]. This is not to say that regular engineers cannot become top rate analysts without a PhD. Some analysts have a Masters degree, but most have no more than a bachelor’s degree. The key to good analyses is knowledge of the limitations of the method and an...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...become convinced myself that it was basically the right thing to do and that the previous 100 years had been a series of failed attempts to do devolution. And it was important that we succeeded otherwise I could see a situation, particularly in Scotland, where the support for independence would be unstoppable. And I still think it was basically necessary to prevent that...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Groups and teamwork
Science, Maths & Technology

Groups and teamwork

...becomes clear that there is no simple prescription for being a good leader; yet there are some characteristics that most effective leaders have in common...Groups and teamwork: 2.1 What is a group? - Our tendency to form groups is a pervasive aspect of organisational life. As well as formal groups, committees and teams, there are informal groups, cliques and cabals....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...become functional ciphers merely, as they are in white papers and business letters, they lose their ‘ghosts’ – the rich aura that has grown about them from the start, and grows infinitesimally richer every time they are spoken. They lose more; they lose their ‘kernel’, the sheer sensuous relish of utterance… We are in danger of contenting ourselves with husks....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...become hugely successful. At an average weight of about 1 kg, the rats are too light to set off mines. They can scurry across and search 200 square metres of ground in 20 minutes, compared with 50 square metres per day for a person using a metal detector. Apopo, the organisation Weetjens founded, dispatches trained rats to areas of land known or suspected to be mined (but...
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Article 5 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...become critical of the different types of evidence used for studying reading, but also suggest some pathways for your own research. Before we delve into different categories of evidence in detail, it might be worthwhile to point out exactly where the details of the source from which the reading experience is derived are located. Source information can be found right at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...become such familiar elements in our language. ‘Voice’ is often used in this everyday, metaphorical sense. We’ll pause on this point so that you can consider it for yourself. Activity 1 In each of the sentences below, decide whether the word ‘voice’ is used literally or metaphorically: (a) He spoke in a soft, soothing voice. (b) The members spoke with one voice...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr