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Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?
Society, Politics & Law

Will the next Secretary-General of the United Nations be a woman?

...Management Group. However, women with the appropriate skills and experience, such as career diplomats and former presidents and prime ministers, should also be given the same opportunities to be appointed Secretary-General as men. Historically, rarely have women been put forward as candidates by member states. This all changed in 2014 when civil society organisations...
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Article 5 mins
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...managing, performance and development directors, and other senior leadership positions (Women in Sport, 2017). Closing the gender gap in sport has been a growing priority for those in government and in national governing bodies (NGBs) of sport but if sport is still an ‘old boys club’, who are the key decision makers who are driving this change and how much progress...
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Article 15 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...management, assessments, becoming digitally ready, and effectively engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be an apprentice distance learner. After studying this course, you should be able to: identify areas of study strengths in preparation for becoming an apprentice distance learner...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about the menopause: symptoms, support and the role of exercise

...Management of the Menopause (6th ed.). Marlow: British Menopause Society. Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust (2020) The Menopause: Short Term and Long Term Effects Available at: https://www.liverpoolwomens.nhs.uk/ media/ 4513/ gyn_2018-144.pdf (Accessed: 27 February 2024). Mansberg, G. (2020) The M Word: How to Thrive in Menopause. London: Murdoch Books. Newson, L....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...manage emotions and relationships, including communication, self-control, emotionality, sociability and adaptability to change. Find out more about emotional intelligence here: The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace involves rating statements that assess emotional intelligence traits and attitudes, such as ‘I can recognise my emotions as I...
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Privatising Thames Water
Money & Business

Privatising Thames Water

...management fees. One further attraction of this style of financing is that it facilitates ‘intra-company’ loans, in which one part of the corporate structure lends money to another part of it. The key attraction of such practices is that the rates charged for such loans are then used to lessen the amount of taxable profits. Whilst the overall aim of the securitisation...
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Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...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 liability for the debts and torts of the business. In the UK, there are three types of partnership: general partnership, limited...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...managing to get onto the scene of the engagement, driving probably precariously at times, I think. It was a case of sort of toughing it out. I thought I might get better. But of course, if you keep piling on the pressure, you don’t get better. INTERVIEWER: What were the good parts about cooking? LOUIS: Good parts were, I suppose … well, yeah. It used to make me feel...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs