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Nuclear power: friend or foe?
Society, Politics & Law

Nuclear power: friend or foe?

...Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) website. Responsibility for nuclear energy has been transferred to a new Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC; http://www.decc.gov.uk/). It is probably easiest simply to search the internet for ‘a white paper on nuclear energy’. The white paper is the basis for the UK government’s view that ‘it is in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Working with diversity in services for children and young people
Education & Development

Working with diversity in services for children and young people

...Business Images/Dreamstime.com Section 1 image: © David Prado Perucha/ Shutterstock Section 4 image: © Prazis Images / Shutterstock Audio-visual Video 1: Images: Girl with Welsh flag, Young girl in gold hijab, Woman in karate suit, Girl with hand covering half her face, Young Migrant and Welsh group sitting on fence, Young Migrant and Welsh group in a church, Woman...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...busy course as medicine you don’t often get the chance to reflect at all so to be able to do that in my own language, it just feels more personal and I get much more out of doing so. And also, when it comes to exams, I’m always given a Welsh copy of the paper, which, although I don’t tend to use to answer on, I always read questions on it and it’s useful to know...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...busy at work, or want time away from their children. Vincent (1996) calls these ‘detached parents’. There are also ‘passive’ non-participants who would like to be involved, but may lack the confidence to do this, or may be unhappy with the form of partnership offered. Vincent (1996) calls these ‘independent parents’. Parents and carers support a setting...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...businesses and schools may benefit from the increased demand for their services. There are many dimensions to such change, no matter where it occurs. [Described image] Figure 1: Aerial view of housing in Ireland: This is an example of a planned development although many of its side-effects may be unplanned. Such an interplay between planned and unplanned outcomes is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Contemporary issues in managing
Money & Business

Contemporary issues in managing

...business experience as he had been already a CEO of another large organisation in the IT (information technology) industry. Another way of looking at collective leadership is through the lens of relational leadership. From this perspective, leadership is not simply located in a variety of individuals – as is the case for distributed leadership. Rather, it is produced...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising systems thinking in practice (STiP)

...business for those whose business it is: The climate is harsh and the weather variable, the soils are generally poor and surface water is scarce, and markets are often very remote and essentially uncertain […] By the beginning of the 1970s, … the level of anxiety about agricultural practices, and the paradigm that they reflected, were beginning to surface …...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...business of politics. The trouble with this is that technology developers can be adventurous, but to be successful they must identify themselves with the constituency in which they hope their product will become the popular choice. They will have to take lessons from Gorgias rather than Socrates and tell their stories in the most compelling way they can. They need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs