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Conversations and interviews
Money & Business

Conversations and interviews

...Business & Management...Conversations and interviews: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the various ways of gathering information by asking people questions understand how to decide between the different types of interview develop the skills needed for approaching different types of interviews...Conversations and interviews:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...Business School is offering a new course: B324 Marketing and society. It includes three main areas: social marketing (40 per cent of the course), marketing ethics (30 per cent of the course) and responsible business marketing (30 per cent of the course). This OpenLearn course examines the nature of social marketing and how the adoption of marketing concepts, frameworks...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...business as usual’ operation of social arrangements or structures, ranging from scientific research, sport and entertainment, to ‘livestock’ farming. Examples are the experimentation on live nonhuman animals in the pharmaceutical industry, which is estimated to involve around 115 million nonhuman animals annually worldwide (Cruelty Free International, 2018) and the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
History & The Arts

A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham

...business to be civil to every one; but he is probably not sentimental about us; and we need not be sentimental about him. He looked like a man of sense, and not like a man of sentiment, that day as he drove through the Doncaster street on his way to the sport he loves beyond any other sport. He sat with three other gentlemen on the sidewise seats of the trap, preceded by...
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Article 5 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...busy and juggling lots of things, while some of you might realise that you already have time available for study. Answer For a full-time apprentice, the average of 6 hours is the number of off-the-job training hours per week. Now that you have a better understanding of off-the-job training time and your available time for study, it is worth considering how to make your...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...business of identifying progress. If, as a result of your reflective exercise, you have a new, broader understanding of improvement, then you will look for signs of progress in a different way. You will not only reflect on the benefits of it, but will quite possibly accept new indicators of progress within the chosen service. Logically, progress exists when incremental...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
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Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...business, etc. If you are an experienced individual with a detailed CV and your focus for this course is career change, you might want to focus this activity slightly differently. For example, you could look at new experiences you’ve had within your workplace over the last 2–5 years, such as becoming a line manager or mentor for the first time. 2. Rank your...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...business connections in Glasgow, brought him into contact with his future wife, Caroline Dale. Caroline’s father was David Dale who had founded the mills at New Lanark in 1785. The village itself is situated about a mile down river from the famous Falls of Clyde. It was there that Dale conceived the idea that the river would be a perfect source of power for a spinning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs