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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...et al. (2017, p. 988) concluded that this activity has ‘a positive and significant impact on final year academic performance. [The] report estimates in the range of 2–4% across both institutions.’ They add that this is ‘somewhat comparable to other estimates reported in the literature.’ This could be due to placement students gaining: a clearer understanding of...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...et al. (1986). Once the problem is defined, the members of the group independently and silently write down as many ideas as possible over a set period of time (typically an hour or so). Then the group comes together in order to discuss the ideas. As with brainstorming, criticism and debate are discouraged although members can ask for clarification of ideas. In the next...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
Gwella profiadau tystion sy’n gleifion, teuluoedd a chydweithwyr o’r broses Addasrwydd i Ymarfer
Health, Sports & Psychology

Gwella profiadau tystion sy’n gleifion, teuluoedd a chydweithwyr o’r broses Addasrwydd i Ymarfer

...et al., 2020). Mae chwythu’r chwiban er budd y cyhoedd oherwydd ei fod yn diogelu pobl yn gyfreithiol i godi pryderon sy’n effeithio ar y cyhoedd neu weithwyr mewn sefydliad. Ystyrir bod codi pryderon drwy lwybrau priodol yn bwysig o ran diogelu’r cyhoedd a phobl sy’n gweithio ym maes iechyd a gofal cymdeithasol i sicrhau ansawdd a diogelwch gofal (y Cyngor...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...et al., 2009, pp. 88–90 and Everard and Wilson, 2004)...Week 2: The secrets of motivation and teams: 2.2 From theory into practice - Herzberg’s theory raises some interesting points about how organisations and managers might operate: people work at their best when they are achieving the greatest satisfaction from their work. Thinking about the people who featured in...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...et al., 2009) goes further to argue that one solution to regional inequality (at least in England) might be for the London city region simply to expand its footprint to incorporate other cities, starting with Birmingham. From another perspective, however, the matter has been understood quite differently. London’s position within the UK’s space economy reflects a...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...et al., published by Open University Worldwide. Where particular skills, such as reading, note taking and using diagrams may be needed to help your study, you can read the appropriate section. How often you will need to do this will, of course, depend on your existing skills. Finally the course contains some Exercises and Self-assessment Questions (SAQs) which I recommend...
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Level 1: Introductory 11 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...et al., 1999, p. 153). The saturnine humour is melancholia, suffered most in the evening when the planet Saturn is in the sky. It was particularly associated with creative individuals such as poets and painters. Melancholia was certainly associated with artists at Caravaggio's time (Wittkower, 1961, pp. 293–4): Cardanus in 1561 described painters as ‘fickle, of...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Goya
History & The Arts

Goya

...et d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Liège (Plate 9.12). Michel-Ange Houasse, The Drawing Academy, c.1725, 61 x 72.5 cm, oil on canvas, Royal Palace, Madrid (Unit 1, Figure 1.8). Diego de Velásquez, Las Meninas, 1656, 318 x 276 cm, oil on canvas, Prado, Madrid. After José Aparicio, Glories of Spain, engraving, after a painting of 1815–18, now lost, Biblioteca...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs