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Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...statistical analysis, or in numbers of jobs created or lost...Companies and financial accounting: 4 Three perspectives on the role of companies and financial reporting in society - The allocation of a bundle of property rights over shareholders, the company and the directors creates the possibility for conflicting interests. In addition, market imperfections, the limits...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...statistics, personal details, etc. can all be recorded and stored on magnetic media, i.e. materials that are able to be magnetised to store information for future retrieval. During the twentieth century magnetic media increasingly came to the fore in the recording industry, culminating in the tape recording technology with which some people today are still familiar. A...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
MSE’s Academy of Money Badge icon
Money & Business

MSE’s Academy of Money

...statistics to insurers to help quantify the risks that insurers are taking on. Insurers need data on the probabilities of the perils for which they offer insurance – death, illness, disease, burglary, accidents and so forth – and data on people of different ages, genders, locations, postcodes and households, so that they can estimate their risks of paying out....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...Statistics show approaches using extrinsic motivation are not effective for all students (DfE, 2013). Ideally children should be intrinsically motivated to learn, so that they do something, such as reading, for its own sake and because they want to, not just for reward (Kohn, 1999). Activity 8 Timing: Allow about 20 minutes Read the edited extract below on alternatives to...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to differentiation
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to differentiation

...Statistics at the Open University. If you feel you might benefit from some extra help with algebra you may like to study another free OpenLearn course, Introduction to algebra, an adapted extract from the Open University module MU123 Discovering mathematics. If you feel you are ready to move on but don’t have time to study a full Open University module at this time, you...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...statistical prediction model...Week 1: What is resilience?: 2.3 Identifying additional stress factors - Although Holmes and Rahe identified a range of stress factors, there are many other issues that can cause stress in people’s lives. Activity 4 Lightening the load Timing: Allow about 10 minutes a.Are there other stress factors in your life that Holmes and Rahe...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The science of nutrition and healthy eating Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of nutrition and healthy eating

...Statistics (2010) an average male in England weighs 83.6kg and an average woman in England weighs 70.2kg therefore a person weighing 70 kg has 42 litres of water. Most of this fluid is in the cells (about 65%). Water can move easily in and out of cells, so it can go wherever it is needed. Different parts of the body have different concentrations of fluid. This is related...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...statistics that reinforce this feeling. For example in July 2017, a headline read ‘New report shows just 100 companies are source of over 70% of emissions’ (CDP, 2017). Activity 5 Feelings about climate change Timing: Allow about 5 minutes When you ask yourself what can you do to support action against climate change, what feelings accompany your thinking? Write down...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs