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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...thinking about questions like these, Succeed with learning is just what you are looking for. This course takes your life as its starting point, developing your awareness of just how much you have already learned and what you are capable of. It will suggest ways of 'fine-tuning', and building on, the expertise you have developed in your life. You will also learn some...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...think that the root of this paradox is that the word is used both when we identify a need – the first link in the problem-solving chain – and when we undertake the process of meeting that need. It is the identification of the need and the realisation that it is real and must be met that creates the anxiety and the negative feelings ('Houston, we have a problem …')....
Beyond power and resistance: Politics at the radical limits
Money & Business

Beyond power and resistance: Politics at the radical limits

...systems based not on the possibility of freedom but enlarging the freedom of possibility. In the 21st century can we move beyond power and resistance to a politics at the radical limits that eternally expands what is socially possible? Read more about the book: Bloom, P. (2016) Beyond Power and Resistance: Politics at the Radical Limits. Rowman and Littlefield...
Gwaith Tîm: Hyfforddiant i Lywodraethwyr (Cymru)
Education & Development

Gwaith Tîm: Hyfforddiant i Lywodraethwyr (Cymru)

...system addysg yng Nghymru fel rhan o waith tîm ehangach tuag at yr un nod: sicrhau bod plant yng Nghymru yn cael addysg ardderchog...Mae’r cwrs hwn yn rhoi cyflwyniad byr i faes gweithio mewn tîm. Gallwch hefyd weld y cyrsiau eraill yn y casgliad hwn: Cyflwyniad i arweinyddiaeth i lywodraethwyr ac Addysg gynhwysol: deall yr hyn a olygwn. Mae gwaith tîm yn rhan...
More ‘salad bowl’ than ‘melting pot’
Society, Politics & Law

More ‘salad bowl’ than ‘melting pot’

...systems, religious beliefs, language groups becomes an interesting study for students of sociology or for observers of society. This coexistence is not always peaceful. There have been awful violations of human dignity in the recent past in Gujarat, Kashmir…yet Indian School showcases how most of India lives, a ‘salad bowl’ not a ‘melting pot’. Each community...
Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law
Society, Politics & Law

Rules, rights and justice: an introduction to law

...system of trial by jury, which is now 800 years old; but does it have limitations in the 21st century? Corporate manslaughter How can corporate failings be dealt with by the law? Experts in corporate law and prosecution, and safety in industry debate current law and its shortcomings. Adoption and donor tracing Adoption lawyers and researchers of assisted conception...
Ebusiness technologies: foundations and practice
Science, Maths & Technology

Ebusiness technologies: foundations and practice

...systems enable big business to keep in touch with latest sales information from their stores? How are Internet and Web technologies and their associated applications used in practice? This album explores how these technologies are changing the way businesses operate internally and externally. The seven video tracks examine a Tesco supply chain and present an insider's...
‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury
Education & Development

‘Where do you really come from?’ How this enquiry can add insult to injury

...thinking about what these labels mean. Terms like ‘over-sensitivity’ for example are more about issuing judgement than they are about describing an objective state. An individual who is sensitive to something behaves so for a biological or historical reason; similarly an individual who is attention seeking is doing it to satisfy a need for attention which a...