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Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...business context (with your new customers), as part of daily life (e.g. shopping with your relatives in France), as a tourist (e.g. asking for directions or booking a hotel in Quebec), or just as part of your studies. What sort of language will you be reading or listening to? Will it be formal business French, informal conversations, short interactions with shop owners,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Starting with law
Society, Politics & Law

Starting with law

...businesses operate. It even provides the guidelines which determine how a government may use its powers to rule. What is a law? How do we recognise laws and why are they obeyed? It is important that we decide what we mean by the term ‘law’ before we go any further...Starting with law: The definition of law - It is not easy to give a definition of law, as legal systems...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...business that provides two specialist services – reuse/recycling of mobile phones and reuse/recycling of telecommunications network equipment. Fonebak was one scheme they have developed. It was the world’s first mobile phone recycling scheme to comply with all legislation. Over 18 million phones each year were being replaced in the UK around 2000 and without...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...business, with the support of the Conservative party and the Constitution. The teaching of religion in Spanish schools has been a source of conflict for many years. The Second Republic of 1931 to 39, blown to pieces by the Civil War which started with the military coup in 36, was partly torn apart by the opposing stances on religion in society and even more specifically...
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Article 5 mins
What is Locus of Control?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is Locus of Control?

...and employees' accidents’, Journal of Business and Psychology, 7, pp. 449–57. Kyriacou, C. and Sutcliffe, J. (1997) ‘A note on teacher stress and locus of control’, Journal of Occupational Psychology, 52 (3), pp. 227–8. Popova, S. (2012) ‘Locus of Control - Predictor of Health and Subjective Wellbeing’, European Medical Health and Pharmaceutical Journal, 4....
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Article 10 mins
Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters
Health, Sports & Psychology

Vegans: why they inspire fear and loathing among meat eaters

...business over that time. The row erupted after freelance journalist Selene Nelson pitched a series on “plant-based recipes” to the magazine, given the rise in popularity of vegan products in recent years. Waitrose, like many UK supermarkets, has recently expanded its vegan product range and, as Sitwell’s own article in The Times in January 2018 noted – in less...
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Article 5 mins
Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics
Nature & Environment

Talking turkey: 12 facts about turkey genetics

...business, pecking at food – I’ve yet to see one raise it’s mouth and drown. And they have feelings. My daughter and I once watched as 4 turkeys stood around a comrade who’d just been run over, clearly distraught. None left, even as cars went by. I saw a family of 7 perched on a branch in size order, crapping in unison. And one early morning I turned a corner and...
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Article 5 mins
Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?
Money & Business

Should I lock in my exchange rate when using cards and ATMs abroad?

...business travelers visited another country in 2016, and this year is already on pace to exceed that tally. One thing you definitely need when traveling abroad besides a passport is local currency, such as euros in Europe, yen in Japan or rubles in Russia. In the past, travelers would typically withdraw what they need from an ATM in the country they’re visiting or simply...
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Article 5 mins