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Why would British athletes choose winter sports?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why would British athletes choose winter sports?

...Money and role models Finance is also strongly related to opportunity – participation in winter sports often requires overseas travel and expensive equipment. At the upper ends lottery funding and sponsorship is available, but the financial aspects may prevent potential athletes starting a winter sport. Learning to ski as a child, for example, is a privilege largely...
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Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...activities into similar sorts of methodological frameworks as those used for business planning or IT systems design. Successful provision of training and development thereby sits alongside other key functions in business planning, and stakeholders are encouraged to focus on the following key issues: the importance of articulating the desired outcomes from the training – that is, how will you know ......
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...business prosperity which is entirely without equal in the pages of trade history. (Sutliff, 1901) The rise of information and communication technologies (ICT) – that is, computers, software, telecommunications and the internet – and the large impact that these new technologies are having on the way that society functions, have prompted many to claim that we have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...money, and you think that's a ‘good’ thing, then what's wrong with that? The ‘right’ outcome is what is wanted, so do the reasons really matter? Box 1: Excerpt from George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara, Act III LOMAX: That was rather fine of the old man, you know. Most chaps would have wanted the advertisement. CUSINS: He said all the charitable institutions would...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...money in pounds sterling into euros. At the time of writing, one agency had an exchange rate of €1.48 to £1 and did not make any additional charges. (If you prefer, you can look up the current conversion rate in a newspaper or at a bank or travel agency.) a.How many euros would you get for £5? How many euros would you get for £10? b.Write down a word...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...money, markets, business, etc. Opportunism as it appears in this context engenders fraudulent behaviour that is considered criminal in nature, thus something that the state must root out and punish. But fraud or rather fraud-like behaviour transcends both criminality and even behaviour that is explicitly ‘illegal’. As such it is also a major concern for private law...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...businesses that will generate new jobs for workers, while also paying a good amount of taxes to the government. However, other economists, such as French economist Thomas Piketty, have challenged the validity of the Kuznets curve (Piketty, 2006). Activity 3: The Kuznets curve in practice Timing: 3 minutes Figure 4 shows the link between economic growth and income...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...business, or the group of employees that administers and controls a business or industry, for example. It is also used to refer to the working or cultivation of land, in particular, control of a forest, environment or nature reserve, and, over time, has been extended to include maintenance, conservation and encouragement of natural resources, such as game, fish and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs