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Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Culture can be brutal, just ask Milton Keynes

...business after all – but it’s not the whole truth. [Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre ] Concrete Cows, 2012 Intu shopping centre The originals, a small herd of three cows and two calves, were created in the late 1970s by the Milton Keynes Development Corporation’s first community artist-in-residence Liz Leyh, with help from some of the town’s first,...
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Capacity and demand management
Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

...busy times, and the backlog might be cleared when less demand is coming in. The alternative approach is to adjust capacity in anticipation of a change in demand. We could look at demand forecasts and anticipate when peaks and troughs are going to occur, usually through seasonality of demand. We then make adjustments to capacity to match the general pattern of demand over...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...money to be returned. Frank Field, a former social security minister, tabled a motion in parliament yesterday calling for an independent appeals tribunal to hear cases before the Revenue claws back overpayments. Ministers revealed that 217,000 households asked for overpayments to be written off in 2004/05 and 54,000 have already made write-off requests in the first two...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
A journey through two Englands
History & The Arts

A journey through two Englands

...business of his, any more than the most outlying nebula or the coal-sacks of the southern hemisphere: his solar system was the parish; the master's temper and the casualties of lambing-time were his region of storms. He cut his bread and bacon with his pocket-knife, and felt no bitterness except in the matter of pauper laborers and the bad-luck that sent contrarious...
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Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...business that diverse leadership leads to better governance. Diverse boards have a greater wealth of experience, thought and perspective. This results in more effective risk management, better decision making and, ultimately, better performance and success (Farrer & Co, 2019). A recent report by McKinsey & Co (2020) (one of the ‘big 5’ management consultants in the...
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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...busy constructing a software system, it is probable that the users’ needs will change. In addition new requirements are likely to be identified once a software system becomes operational. It is also possible that the developer may miss a requirement during the specification process. We expect a software system to be flexible, because it is important to be able to change...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...money set up, and in their trust deeds, which all sort of charities or foundations like that would have to have, they have their purposes. For them, their purpose is what you might call social enterprise. They do funding in education and environment, and one or two others. And they have a particular focus on the eastern part of the US. Mainly the US, and they only do a...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?
Money & Business

Are women under-represented at tech accelerators?

...businesses that can stand on their own two feet. As well as giving needy new companies financial support and office space, they play an important role in helping them develop through mentoring. So it’s good news that the number of accelerator programmes is set to increase in the UK, to support what is one of the world’s most dynamic start-up clusters and the most...
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