Colleges of further education aren’t just for teaching anymore. They’re becoming centres of business excellence, selling their own products and services alongside the apprenticeships and classroom teachings they’ve always delivered. But how do you become an education entrepreneur? What skills do you need? Where do you start? In this book for senior college leaders you’ll learn: how to tap into your entrepreneurial spirit, the step-by-step process for creating and marketing your own college services, the secrets to becoming the education partner your local business community can’t do without.By the end you’ll have a plan to turn your institution into an innovative, agile and change-ready organisation, ideally positioned to take advantage of the opportunities ahead.

Wie setzt man Wissen und Informationen effektiver ein als die Mitbewerber? Eine Frage, die im gegenwärtigen 'Digitalen Zeitalter' ständig an Bedeutung gewinnt. Der Autor führt ein Maß, den Unternehmens-IQ, ein, um zu bewerten, wie eine Firma Informationen managt und Entscheidungen trifft, und leitet Prinzipien ab, deren Befolgung zu außergewöhnlicher Leistungsfähigkeit in der schnellebigen modernen Weltwirtschaft führt. (03/99)

Explains how to heal the damage caused by yo-yo dieting, stimulent abuse, and poor nutrition while replacing body fat with lean muscle.

Pattern-recognition prowess served our ancestors well, but today we are confronted by a deluge of data that is far more abstract, complicated, and difficult to interpret. The number of possible patterns that can be identified relative to the number that are genuinely useful has grown exponentially - which means that the chances that a discovered pattern is useful is rapidly approaching zero. Patterns in data are often used as evidence, but how can you tell if that evidence is worth believing? We are hard-wired to notice patterns and to think that the patterns we notice are meaningful. Streaks, clusters, and correlations are the norm, not the exception. Our challenge is to overcome our inherited inclination to think that all patterns are significant, as in this age of Big Data patterns are inevitable and usually coincidental. Through countless examples, The Phantom Pattern Problem is an engaging read that helps us avoid being duped by data, tricked into worthless investing strategies, or scared out of getting vaccinations.

Young autistic Gwydion and his archeologist grandfather are reading ancient stories together and they take us through time in earth's history to thousands of years ago with the book of Moses, the Exodus, and more. But some one or some THING is trying to kill them and stop them from translating the oldest stories. Stories of ancient Gods arriving here, touching off beautiful new civilizations only to be thwarted by the arrival of others from far off worlds. Twisted remains of an unknown king are found in an impossible silver Sarcophagus, and more Scrolls are discovered, stunning young Gwydion into becoming a speaker for the long dead by destroying an ancient demon and gaining his own guardian angel. The old God's have gone home vacating this planet mysteriously leaving empty husks of civilization and confused aboriginal populations all over the world searching to regain the knowledge of their ancient Gods. Gwydion tries to help and pays the highest price.

Turn your students into scientists who use their knowledge and creativity to solve real-world problems. Each lesson features a step-by-step guide; a summary of recent research; and handouts that are classroom-ready. Learn about the three levels of writing, from a Level 1 quickwrite to a formal, multi-part, Level 3 research paper. Each writing assignment—narrative, persuasive, and informative—includes a detailed rubric that makes grading easy. Students collaborate to contain an outbreak of avian flu, lead a group of people trying to survive under harsh conditions, battle drought in a densely-populated city in the American southwest, research the behavior of animals in the local region, and calculate their own speed, velocity, and momentum. Engaging and demanding, Project-Based Writing in Science helps students to understand and improve the world.