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First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...climate change. Identifying types of entrepreneur and entrepreneurial venture Interviewee Type of entrepreneur / entrepreneurial venture Danny Quinn Julia Charles Dan Wright Catherine Bottrill Words: 0 Discussion We suggest that our interviewees fall into the following categories: Danny Quinn – social entrepreneur. He describes his business, Black Sheep, as a social...
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...change Prepares plans Develops his or her skills and knowledge Schedules activities Establishes control systems Sets/agrees budgets The manager and his or her team Builds and maintains his or her team Makes presentations Selects staff Conducts meetings Sets performance standards Writes reports and correspondence Raises productivity Interviews Motivates people Counsels and...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...climate change or subsidise low-carbon fuels...Financial methods in environmental decisions: Conclusion - This free course, Financial methods in environmental decisions has introduced some of the tools that can be used to assess the benefits of investment decisions. The business case for any environmental expenditure has always to be justified using a range of financial...
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...climate change and Covid. These are issues that you may be discussing amongst your friends and making decisions about personally or within your community, or that your politicians are making decisions about through national and international policies. Let’s take the example of this tweet from Donald Trump. There are a few simple ways to check information online and on...
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...Climate change Law and justice Roads and transport Words: 0 Comment Table 6 lists the main government departments with responsibility for the areas in question. It is worth noting that sometimes more than one department or agency will cover the same territory. Table 6 Suggested government departments and their areas of responsibility AREA OF RESEARCH GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...climate change, religious and political conflict, resource depletion and over-population. Our collective unwillingness as human beings to address these challenges may prove our final downfall. But Anthropathology also challenges many assumptions about individual problems, for example, the view of mental health problems as caused primarily within families or by our own...
Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...climate change. In the words of New York Times journalist David Brooks, hurricanes such as Katrina ‘wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities’ (September 2005, quoted in Strolovitch et al., 2005, p. 1). In these...
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...climate change, race, gender, class. All of the key issues, problems, questions that you have about the world around you, Religious Studies addresses those - because religion is implicated in all those issues. Suzanne Newcombe, Lecturer in Religious Studies: Our society is really complicated. What you learn in Religious Studies is how to use the best tools to answer...