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Rising China and Africa's development: oil
Society, Politics & Law

Rising China and Africa's development: oil

...multiple allegations of corruption surrounding oil block allocation to IOCs...Session 2: The politics of resource governance: 2.3 Worse development indicators - There are strong links between the resource curse and poor development outcomes, which show through rising inequality and poverty levels. This is primarily due to the poor economic performance and political...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...Multiple periods Single decision Sequences, patterns Introspective Outward looking Manufacturing focus Competitive focus Existing activities Possibilities Reactive Proactive Overlooks linkages Embraces linkages Extract from Wilson and Chua (1993, p. 530) as quoted by Wickramasinghe and Alawattage (2007, p. 245) Activity 2 Information sources for strategic management...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...multiple thin units (numbered 5 and 6) oriented in a north-westerly direction. What name can be used to describe them? Answer Units 5 and 6 consist of intermediate to mafic dykes, and form part of the Lewisian Complex. In this abundance, they can be referred to as a dyke swarm. Note that they do not cut across the Torridonian Sandstone, which indicates that the dykes were...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
The social in social science
Society, Politics & Law

The social in social science

...multiple-earner households … and sales have been concentrated among households where the principal earner is in secure employment, where he or she is in a skilled manual or a non-manual occupation and where the family is of a conventional nuclear type. … There is in Britain a worrying gap opening up between what have been termed the ‘middle mass’ and the...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
The psychology of cybercrime
Health, Sports & Psychology

The psychology of cybercrime

...multiple usernames and passwords to remember. This means that users have been left to develop their own individual strategies to manage their various online accounts, and sometimes these strategies (e.g. writing down passwords, reusing details) can compromise security. [An image of a person in a dark room looking at a laptop.] Another possible explanation could be that...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship
Money & Business

First steps in innovation and entrepreneurship

...multiple businesses to much less prosperous people, often based in remote rural areas, who engage in several different small enterprises in order to reduce risks and to maintain an income when local markets, or economic conditions more generally, are depressed or uncertain (note the distinction between this term and the ‘serial entrepreneur’). Rural entrepreneur This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...multiple individual leaders, whereas a relational leadership approach sees leading as a practice emerging from the process of organisational collaboration...Contemporary issues in managing: Benefits of collective leadership - A first benefit of collective leadership is that it enables – at least in specific contexts – and enhances problem-solving to increase...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...multiple times only once. Transcript “La gente se sorprende mucho cuando me conoce(n) porque no lo aparento pero soy una persona muy paciente, tengo mucha paciencia. O sea, parezco muy nerviosa, parezco muy tal, ¿no? Pero luego la gente cuando… bueno pues cuando me va conociendo dicen: “Paloma, ¡qué paciencia tienes! ¿no?“ Que no debe ser muy habitual en la...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs