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Customised Programmes for Universities, Colleges, Business Schools and Organisations

1. Select your Programmes, Courses, and Modules for customising from the open learning material shown in the Learning Centres listed below.

2. Customised in full cooperation with user institutions' teaching staff, we offer Academic and Professional Development Programmes and Learning Contents for Distance, and/or Campus-based Learning.

Copyrights of all customised material are transferred to the client.

3. British University Accreditation Issues

If required, we are pleased to help in your British or another overseas partner search and any consequent accreditation processes.

1. Select your Programmes, Courses, and Modules for customising from the open learning material shown in the Learning Centres listed below.

2. Customised in full cooperation with user organization's instructors or mentors, we offer Academic and Professional Development Programmes and Learning Contents for Distance, and/or Centre-based Learning.

Copyrights of all customised material are transferred to the client.

Web-based, Module-specific Self-directed Study Resources for Teachers and Learners

Subscriptions to Modules, also called Learning Guides or Workshop, are available for Students, Trainees and Professionals' self-determined, independent and interest-guided learning using the Online Business School Forums, Chat lines and Wikis.

These Open Learning Units are entirely web-based and non-customised where we actively encourage the use of adapted Wikipedia together with other relevant information sources on public domain.

Moodle for Students

Subscriptions to Modules, also called Teaching Guides or Workshop, are available for Teachers, Tutors and Instructors' self-determined, independent and interest-guided learning using the Online Business School Forums, Chat lines and Wikis.

These Open Learning Units are entirely web-based and non-customised where we actively encourage the use of adapted Wikipedia together with other relevant information sources on public domain.

Moodle for Tutors

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Economics Centre

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Economics (from the Greek οίκος [oikos], 'family, household, estate', and νομος [nomos], 'custom, law', hence "household management" and "management of the state") is a social science that typically studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Since the early part of the 20th century, economics has focused largely on measurable variables, and employed both theoretical models and empirical analysis[1]. Economic logic is increasingly applied to any problem determining economic value (such as politics, religion, psychology, history and dating). A professional working in economics or having an academic degree in the subject is an economist.

The subject is broadly divided into two main branches: microeconomics, which deals with individual agents, such as households and businesses, and macroeconomics, which considers the economy as a whole. An alternate division of the subject distinguishes positive economics, which tries objectively to predict and explain economic phenomena, from normative economics, which recommends one choice over another—such recommendations often involve subjective value judgments.

The mainstream economic paradigm is a combination of neoclassical economics and Keynesian macroeconomics. Crucial assumptions of this paradigm include the idea that resources are scarce while wants are unlimited, which is sometimes characterized as the economic problem, and an understanding that the value of most goods can be represented in terms of their open-market price. Various schools of heterodox economics, for instance socialist economics, green economics and associative economics, seek to explain economic phenomena using different basic assumptions, for example by emphasising that economics is primarily concerned with exchanges of values.