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Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...manage your OpenLearn statement of participation online from My OpenLearn. In addition, you can download and print them. Now watch the video where Bernie Hickman from Legal & General, introduces the course and explains the ways it can help you. Transcript...Session 1: wealth: where you’re at right now: 1 Introducing your wealth check-up - Welcome to the wealth check-up...
Developing business ideas for drone technologies Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing business ideas for drone technologies

...manager, working with a lot of people from 13 organisations, from eight different European countries. I'm happy to share some information about the ICAERUS project and the upcoming open call that is a very good opportunity for innovation and collaboration. The ICAERUS project aims to foster the effective and efficient adoption of drone technologies across Europe. In order...
Translation as a career
Languages

Translation as a career

...Manager whose task is to coordinate multilingual translation projects (this is a common pathway into the profession). You would also probably specialise in one or more specific types of translation. Some of the more lucrative areas include legal, medical, technical or financial translation but there are many, many possible areas of specialisation. Translation for the...
Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
The science of sperm
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sperm

...manage sex up to three or four times a day. A lion can manage it seventy five times a day during the mating season. • When a man ejaculates he generally produces between 2 and 5 millilitres of sperm (about the same volume as a large teaspoon would hold). A pig routinely manages one litre which is 200 times as much. • Our sperm cells are microscopic - we cannot see them...
How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...managing and reducing digital carbon footprints is one that requires changes in policy, procedure and behaviour. This path begins with two fundamental activities that underpin and facilitate the other tips I will share later. First, we must seek to gain an ever-improving snapshot of the organisation’s carbon status quo, or ‘carbon baseline’. Second, we must raise...
Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style
History & The Arts

Tory Trades Unionism: 19th Century Style

...managed to cost the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, his seat in Parliament. The Northern Echo of July 16th, 1895, reports: [Geoffrey Drage, MP] Geoffrey Drage in the year he entered parliament The loss of Sir William Harcourt at Derby will not be an unmixed joy to the Conservatives all round. The result has a special interest in Bishop...
Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic
Society, Politics & Law

Ahmed Hussen's election is another element in Canada's mosaic

...managed to a large extent to remain strong and united despite all these differences.” Ahmed Hussen says the Canadian-Somali community brings with it certain natural strengths. “There's a very rich history way back from Somalia of entrepreneurship, a willingness to take business risks in places that have been written off. They've brought this to Canada as well.”...
The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Financial Engineering

...management. Cooperatives, for instance, a potentially exciting alternative to established corporate financial structures. They emphasize shared ownership, job security, long term investment, sustainability and social justice. Tellingly, the techniques of financial engineering can be repurposed possibly to assist and strengthen such cooperatives. Race Mathews investigates...