Listen and learn
Don’t forget to check out www.shippingpodcasts.com for up-to-the-minute commentary on legal issues, currency fluctuations and oil market commentary, among other topics.
Listen as an audio file on your computer, or download the files to your MP3 player to listen to them on the move. Better yet, sign up through iTunes, choose the podcasts that you’re interested in and the latest files will be downloaded to your computer or MP3 player whenever you log-in.
Information Highway
It’s not enough to study the detail of the ICS syllabus when preparing for examinations; syllabus topics must be combined with ‘real life’ information for students to optimise their learning experience.
Reading the maritime trade newspapers and magazines regularly will help supplement the syllabus, as will signing up to www.shippingpodcasts.com.
Here at Coracle we want our students to excel in their examinations so we have also created a new info-Alert service for students. Each month we are asking our tutors to write a commentary on our syllabus topics, giving you the practical information you need to apply the knowledge you have gained from Coracle study.
September’s info-Alert looks at the Liner Trades with tutor Ravindra Galhena examining how high fuel prices are affecting the lines is available here
Soak up the information, courtesy of Coracle and our expert tutors, and build on your education experience.
And lastly,
The Coracle quick quiz:
Do you know your Leks from your Florins, or your Pesos from your Escudos? In our international industry you could stumble across any number of currencies in your career. Do you know who uses what?
1) Name three South American countries that pay for goods with Pesos.
2) Which country uses the Renminbi?
3) What continent would you be in if you settled your bill in Takas?
4) What South American country keeps it Real?
5) Names three European Union countries that do not use the Euro.
6) What currency would you expect to use in ?
7) Which country lays claim to the oldest currency still in use today?
8) Which country pioneered plastic banknotes and in which year were they released?
9) Which country has a currency that is called the New Sun in English?
10) Which two currencies make up the world’s most actively traded foreign exchange pair?
Click here to enter the quiz
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