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Dealing with Change
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dealing with Change

...business growth and expansion, or changes to a job description, can lead to a negative impact of a massively increased workload, or feeling incompetent about a change of job description. In contrast, a negative change, such as recession and redundancy, can sometimes have positive outcomes, such as taking up new opportunities to re-train or taking a step towards a new job...
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Article 10 mins
Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...busy speculating about the nature of reality, developing mathematics, writing histories, or teaching ambitious young men how to get on. For Socrates, though, there was only one question that mattered: how can we live good lives? And by ‘a good life’ he didn’t mean a life packed with power, or money, or fame. He meant an ethically good life: the life of someone who...
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Article 5 mins
Managing my investments
Money & Business

Managing my investments

...business of investing in so called ‘peer-to-peer’ products – these enable you to lend directly to individuals and companies without the intermediation of banks. We can’t examine the process of investing without covering the sometimes controversial issue of the costs involved – particularly the fees paid to fund managers – as well as the taxation that applies...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...business with countries in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere in the global South they come to this as a country which has only recently, as the graphs showed, broken away from underdevelopment. China is still considered a developing country according to global growth indicators set by international financial institutions such as the World Bank and World Trade Organisation....
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...business of higher education. These negative beliefs sometimes associate fun with being merely entertainment, or a ‘trivial experience’, and unconnected to the hard and effortful work required for learning. For example, according to the Centre for Education Economics (CEE, 2018): ‘Making lessons fun does not help students to learn’. Fun is considered unnecessary...
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Article 20 mins
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...business-as-usual path. XR is now a worldwide movement with the support of a growing number of academics and members of society from all walks of life, including adults and teenagers. The need for a declaration of a climate emergency is to mobilise the rapid actions needed to avert ecological catastrophe. Through a concerted campaign of civil disobedience, XR is in this...
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Article 15 mins
A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?
OpenLearn Ireland

A hug for the brain: what does it mean to have a happy, healthy brain?

...business costs ten years on . Available at: https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/publications/mental-health-work-business-costs-ten-years/ (Accessed: 08 Jan 2024) Dattani, S. Rodés-Guirao, Ritchie, H. and Roser, M. (2018) Mental Health. Available at: https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health (Accessed: 4 January 2024). Department for Work and Pensions and Department...
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Article 5 mins
How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...business, you can then say that you now have experience of being your own boss. You could point out all the new skills you have gained from sales to budgeting and from marketing to hiring and firing assuming that you had people working for you. Even if the business venture wasn’t successful (don’t mention this negative aspect on your CV) at least you can take a lot of...
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