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Killers or carers?
Nature & Environment

Killers or carers?

...business as usual of animal-product consumption in the face of a compassionate alternative but also of casual sexist tropes. The man, like a clichéd 1970s sitcom character, is engrossed in his manly pleasure of consuming flesh in front of the television while his partner pesters him about moral improvement; it’s his capacity to eat flesh and simultaneously ignore a...
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Using generative AI in relation to legal issues
Society, Politics & Law

Using generative AI in relation to legal issues

...business information, including client or customer data, and other personal data could be used to train and improve an LLM and be subsequently incorporated into future training data sets. As stated above, terms and conditions for each GenAI service can vary depending on the service provider. Some terms and conditions state that, by default, all content inputted by users...
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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...activities into similar sorts of methodological frameworks as those used for business planning or IT systems design. Successful provision of training and development thereby sits alongside other key functions in business planning, and stakeholders are encouraged to focus on the following key issues: the importance of articulating the desired outcomes from the training – that is, how will you know ......
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...business prosperity which is entirely without equal in the pages of trade history. (Sutliff, 1901) The rise of information and communication technologies (ICT) – that is, computers, software, telecommunications and the internet – and the large impact that these new technologies are having on the way that society functions, have prompted many to claim that we have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...business also demand that a firm makes a profit. If a company is unable to return a share of its profits through dividend payments to its shareholders or ensure that the value of its shares continues to rise, shareholders will sell their shares and invest in some other venture. As well as ensuring that it doesn’t lose money, a firm has to make sure that owning shares is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...business, or the group of employees that administers and controls a business or industry, for example. It is also used to refer to the working or cultivation of land, in particular, control of a forest, environment or nature reserve, and, over time, has been extended to include maintenance, conservation and encouragement of natural resources, such as game, fish and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Effective communication in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Effective communication in the workplace

...business practises. For example, discuss the role of empathy in your workplace during orientation and training. This is a time when new employees are actively trying to understand norms and expectations. Share stories regularly about the people your profession helps. These stories remind us that our work has meaning, which motivates us to work even harder. Empathy in the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How can Theresa May escape from the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?
Society, Politics & Law

How can Theresa May escape from the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?

...business of government to a standstill, the SNP say they vote against the legislation that formally repeal Britain’s membership of the EU. And unelected members of the House of Lords have vowed to fight us every step of the way.” The background to Mrs May’s decision to call a snap election is the government’s small majority of 17 and the abiding weakness of the...
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