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Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...Working through this course will help you to: identify how a mentor or coach can support career development; understand the skills and characteristics of an effective mentor or coach; and find out how to become a mentor or coach when you feel ready to take on that role – whether now, or at some stage in your future career. Transcript Enrolling on the course will give...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...work, contributing their valuable perspectives. This potential is showcased by many dyslexic individuals and their success stories. This free course, Understanding dyslexia, aims to empower learners to reach their full potential...Dyslexia is a neurodivergent condition affecting over 10% of the population. It is often linked to reading and writing challenges, but also...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...working alongside others and how they might develop their own capacity in this regard. The course will look towards practical approaches which place relationships at the heart of the leadership process, encouraging all of us to be confident, successful, responsible and effective within the learning situation, not only for ourselves but as advocates and supporters for each...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...works and fascinated by the idea of creating intelligent machines. However, it wasn’t until the development of the electronic computer in 1941 that technology was available to create machine intelligence. The term 'Artificial Intelligence' was first coined in 1956 by an influential figure in the field, John McCarthy. He organised a two month workshop at Dartmouth...
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Article 15 mins
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...working men, women and children were helped by the state; others had to rely on their own resources...Access to healthcare is important to all of us. Did the arrival of state medicine in the twentieth century mean that everyone had access to good medical services? If you fell sick in 1930 where could you get treatment from a GP, a hospital, a nurse? This free course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...work: carcinogens in tobacco smoke, ultraviolet rays from the sun and sunbeds, radiation from natural or man-made sources and much, much more. Whatever the cause, this damage must be repaired in order for cells to carry on functioning properly. On the whole, our cells are exceptionally good at this and, for most of our lives, things usually go according to plan. But if...
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Article 5 mins
Sleep: A doctor's advice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sleep: A doctor's advice

...work late will grab a meal just before bed; this can lead to them waking up feeling exhausted. Your body has to work away digesting and your blood sugar levels will be rising at a time when you should be winding down. 4. Reduce your caffeine intake This seems to be one of the harder tasks for many of my patients. My advice is to have no more than three cups of coffee in...
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Article 10 mins
Life after sport: giving back
Health, Sports & Psychology

Life after sport: giving back

...work, first of all acknowledging that athletes go through many phases in their career. When you are on the outside looking in it is not always easy to see it. Retirement is hard for athletes who have dedicated often many years of their childhood and life to the sport so for them to understand how what they have learnt is transferable is really important. Often there is...
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