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Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...institutes (HEIs) sector and how this accelerates working practices for hybrid. You will also start to create habits to continue to future-proof your organisation, and consider future ways of working that may arise and how to prepare for them...The COVID-19 pandemic caused many organisations to go into warp speed and pivot their workforce to remote working almost...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...et al., 2011). The pathogens causing diarrhoeal diseases are transmitted in contaminated food and water and from hand to mouth (the faecal–oral route). A major underlying cause is the shaming fact that in 2010 around 780 million people (11% of the global population) lacked access to improved sources of drinking water (Figure 2), and 2.5 billion – 37% of the world’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...et articulata debito modo pronunciata’ (‘A literate and articulate voice, pronounced in a correct manner’). This acts as a motto for the allegorical figure, defining the meaning of grammar as it is understood in this tradition. In other words, the text supplies additional meaning to the painting, though in a slightly different way from the names in Figure 2. Adam...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...et al., 2007). Practitioners taking this approach do not assume that social work knowledge can be simply applied to practice. Instead, assumptions about knowledge, power, practice and role of self are scrutinised and explored (D’Cruz et al., 2007), and this informs action. This idea is arguably especially important in a context of rapid social change, when new...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Primary science: supporting children’s learning
Education & Development

Primary science: supporting children’s learning

...et al., 2001), children need time and opportunities to explore and develop their conceptual understanding (Mooney, 2013). Across the curriculum, teaching should ensure that children reconstruct ‘faulty alternative’ frameworks and change their conceptual understanding, to restructure what has been previously learned. This is particularly the case in science, as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...et al., 2018). Balancing this, the internet allows non-professionals to find evidence with which they can challenge health and social care practitioners. Professionals can no longer simply rely on the status of being a ‘professional’. Consumers’ rights and citizens’ rights imply that the services we receive or practise should be evidence-based. For all...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...institution you are intending to study with has degree awarding powers or is otherwise validated, and that your qualification has the necessary required quality assurances and professional body recognition, where relevant. SLIDE 16 And as we have seen, distance-learning Master’s have their own set of pressures, which should be noted. SLIDE 17 You will need to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...Institute came up with that tells you how many hours English native speakers need to study in order to become fluent in Arabic: 2200. This means that if you studied the language for 4 hours per week, you could be fluent in 10 years – more dedicated periods or intensive courses would shorten this time, of course. As a comparison, the same institute estimates that if a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs