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Spain steels itself for another election after months with no government
Society, Politics & Law

Spain steels itself for another election after months with no government

...leadership comes in. Support for parties is one thing, but support for leaders is something else. For example, the Metroscopia poll shows that Ciudadanos’s Rivera is the leader whom other parties' supporters are least put off by, something that might help him lead his party Ciudadanos into a coalition deal. Conversely, the PP’s Rajoy draws deep antipathy from other...
Black History Month 2021 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2021 talks

...leadership practices that led to Rotimi’s election to the Portlaoise Town Council in 2004 and his subsequent election to Mayor in 2007 and in 2009 to Laois County Council. Rotimi was one of the participants in Fidele’s PhD research, studying leadership and social practices of Black and Minority Ethnic socio-political entrepreneurs involved in high profile civic and...
On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Society, Politics & Law

On the death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

...leadership, courage and integrity. He really was a giant whose counsel and example will be sorely missed. To truly understand his life and his achievements we have to look back over the long and bitter struggle that led to Nelson Mandela, prisoner 46664, being elected the first president of the South African people in April 1994. By 1900 Britain had broken the power of...
Start your career with OpenLearn
Education & Development

Start your career with OpenLearn

...leadership… and you’ll find them all in our collection of ‘soft skills’ courses, as approved by Google. You can also check out our full collection of badged open courses on employability. Learn a language Language skills are desirable, and even essential, for prospective employers. Developing your language skills could be the key to landing yourself a perfect job....
What counts as professional learning?
Education & Development

What counts as professional learning?

...leadership to reduce the number of different groups all trying to solve similar problems in isolation without sharing learning together. The other key thread was around challenging the narratives around professional learning either being online or face to face, synchronous or asynchronous, but instead the increasing value of multi-modal, multi-time and space events that...
Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace
OpenLearn Ireland

Ceasefire anniversary in Northern Ireland: 30 years of an impossible peace

...leadership and vision; that moment, to borrow a thought from Miriam Reynolds, daughter of the late Albert Reynolds, when an impossible peace began to look possible. Listen to the Ceasefire Tapes These are excerpts from seven conversations recorded by Brian Rowan during his research. Some of the recordings date back to 1994. Click or tap the image to open the activity....
World-Changing Women: Nur Jahan
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Nur Jahan

...leadership...Find out more about The Open University's History courses and qualifications Nur Jahan India 1577 - 1645 Imperial Rule [Nur Jahan image] Portrait of Nur Jahan In seventeenth-century northern India, upper-class women’s movements were very much restricted by the rules of purdah, that is, the seclusion of women from public view behind high-walled screens and...
World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga

...Leadership [Queen Nzinga image] Drawing of Queen Nzinga In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, city states along the Central African coast began to be of interest to Portuguese Atlantic slave traders who established a fort and settlement at Luanda (in present-day Angola) in 1617. African rulers were faced with a dilemma; submission meant sacrificing...