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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...busy in their classrooms, ‘leading’ their pupils and making decisions about their learning, well-being and behaviour, the principal or head teacher is elsewhere, making sure that the school is properly managed overall. While they might check in from time to time, they cannot and should not be in every classroom, managing and controlling the activities of the teachers....
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Marketing communications in the digital age
Money & Business

Marketing communications in the digital age

...money researching the ‘right’ endorser for their campaign. In order to do this, they will often start with the IMC strategy framework and consider the credibility of the persona in relation to the other aspects of the strategy: the objectives of the campaign, the media strategy and the positioning of the brand and, very importantly, the target audience. On other...
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...business is teaching and learning. People, usually with special qualifications, provide learning which often leads to assessments – such as exams – and in turn leads to certificates, degrees or qualifications. Informal learning is more difficult to define because it covers so many aspects of our lives – like the example of being a parent mentioned earlier. Bringing...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...busy creating solutions, an altogether more imaginative activity...Engineering is about extending the horizons of society by solving technical problems, ranging from the meeting of basic human needs for food and shelter to the generation of wealth by trade. In this free course, Engineering: The nature of problems, we learn that engineers see the problems more as...
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...Businesses and governments see spending money on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM education, as a good thing in order to innovate and modernise so a country keeps pace with others and generates growth and more wealth within society. The model focuses on investment and return. This focus on return means that investment in such things as art...
Robert Owen and New Lanark
History & The Arts

Robert Owen and New Lanark

...business connections in Glasgow, brought him into contact with his future wife, Caroline Dale. Caroline’s father was David Dale who had founded the mills at New Lanark in 1785. The village itself is situated about a mile down river from the famous Falls of Clyde. It was there that Dale conceived the idea that the river would be a perfect source of power for a spinning...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...money for a cancer charity (situation), I organised a successful charity auction (task): hiring the venue, creating a schedule for the event, securing donations for the auction from friends, family and local businesses, and managing the budget and ticket sales (actions). The event raised more than £6000 against a target of £5000 (result). Communication: In my role as...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...busy doing science to transmit data to Earth. During that time we had to content ourselves with the few “taster” images that were beamed back immediately after it passed Pluto. However the probe has now begun the year-long process of transmitting its vast haul of fly-by data, including images that are crisper and more reliable because they preserve original details...