Economics or, more precisely, Menopausal Economics
What you'll learn
- The cost to the economy of the menopause
- The cost to firms of the menopause
- What employers can do
- What governments are doing
Requirements
- none
Description
It follows a recent survey by the CIPD, which found that three in five (59 per cent) menopausal women were negatively affected at work, and that almost 900,000 women in the UK had left their jobs because of menopausal symptoms.
What does the menopause cost the Economy?
What does the menopause cost individual business?
What could employers do? - and why?
What do governments do?
Is there a policy - series of policies - specifically aimed at the problems of menopausal symptoms?
When we consider the menopause we tend to think of the human cost but what of the costs of recruitment, advertising, productivity, training? What of the costs of drugs to deal with the symptoms? What of the costs of the symptoms themselves?
How much do employers - especially MALE employers - know (or care) about the menopause? What are the economic arguments for having a 'menopause policy'? Some of the course is shot in darkness to symbolise the current state of knowledge/interest about the menopause among males/employers/governments.
Participation from students - especially those in work -is encouraged. Collectively you know how different countries address the cost of the menopause - the human and the financial cost.
Are employers aware of the costs to their business of the menopause?
What steps can/could they take (and how can government encourage this) to reduce these costs?
Who this course is for:
- All males
- All females
- Businesses/employers
- Governments
Instructors
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
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- 252,061 Students
- 144 Courses
Studied at:
· University of Oxford (Philosophy and Economics)
· Oxford Brookes (Teacher training)
· University of Glamorgan (Business and Economics)
Qualifications
· Professional qualifications at Masters level
· Business and Economics degree
· Examiner for four major examining boards, at ‘O’ and ‘A’ level.
· Three teaching diplomas plus CELTA
· Qualified fitness trainer
Key academic positions held:
· Principal Oxford School of Learning
· Director of Studies: St Joseph’s Hall, Oxford
· Head of Economics: Cherwell Tutors
· Head of Business and Economics: Pipers Corner School, Buckingham
· Founder: Almost Random Theatre
I have experience in four main areas:
a. Teaching (40+ years of face-to-face experience)
b. Running businesses and conferences
c. Acting in films and theatre
d. Volunteering for a number of charities
Teaching/Instructor experience
Face-to-face: MBA students on a 1-1 basis; at University; Grammar, Comprehensive and F.E. College. This has included being Principal, Director of Studies; Head of Business and Head of Economics at various times in the past 40 years!
I have taught: Economics, Business, Sociology, Politics, English Literature and Psychology.
I have also run seminars for Teachers of |Psychology, Sociology, Businessman Economics.
I have run Therapeutic Art groups at Care Homes.
The success of my Business and Economics students has been featured in several newspapers plus I have appeared on BBC.
Running businesses and conferences.
I started Oxford School of Learning in the 1980s. From the college came Marketing Education Services, OSL Training and Saturday tutors.
In 201 I started Almost Random Theatre and have taken actors to Poland and the Czech Republic as well as running Drama days at schools.
Writing: my plays are sold to schools; I have 100+ books on Amazon; I used to write a regular column for The Guardian and BBC Bitesize.
Acting in films and theatre
My plays are sold to schools. I have performed at Oxford and Brighton Fringes as well as appearing in 100+ films, national TV advertising campaigns and role-played a hospital patient for Buckingham University’s medical degree students.
Volunteering
I have worked/am still working for Care Homes, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dystonia Society, Stroke Association, Stroke Club, Talkback, Oxford Recovery College, Tandem, Age UK and Sport in Mind. I’ve given my tutorial fees to the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Dystonia Society. I currently have a GoFundMe page to help lonely elderly people.
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 7,596 Reviews
- 182,938 Students
- 52 Courses
Oxford School of Learning was set up in 1986. It became a limited company which was then closed down around 2018 as there was no need to keep it going. The School kept going though, writing/providing books, online courses and issuing the Oxford School of Learning Diploma to those who met difficult criteria.
As the name suggests, Oxford School of Learning is based in Oxford, UK. The original Principal was Chris Sivewright who now delivers various Economics and Business courses for us.