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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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Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?
Languages

Is Brexit going to unseat English as the lingua franca?

...language of multinational corporations and international business. So, we have not seen the beginning of the end of English as a transnational language and it may well thrive for a long time to come. What we have seen is another nail in the coffin of native speaker supremacy. Native speakers have just chosen to make themselves even more irrelevant to the story of English....
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Do people really behave in a rational way?
Money & Business

Do people really behave in a rational way?

...Businesses and governments around the world use this view of human behaviour as the basis for weighing the benefits and costs of decisions affecting trillions of pounds every year. Psychologists are also interested in people’s choices, particularly the effect of emotions. Much of this complements economists' standard view of us. Take emotions related to the object of...
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British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds
Society, Politics & Law

British public open to compromise on Brexit deal, new research finds

...businesses found that 98% of those polled think “no deal” on Brexit is unacceptable. A few days later the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, seemed to suggest that leaving the EU without a deal was not in fact a realistic option for the government. “There is no plan for no deal because we are going to get a great deal,” he said. Our study found that the British...
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What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...businesses, organisations and the individuals who work there and how prepared they were to deal with these. Read more about why this hub was created. The hub launched in June 2021, but we will not stop there. We will continue to add content and already have some exciting projects in the pipeline! What does the Hub contain? In curating this hub, we focused initially on...
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