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Developing career resilience Badge icon
Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...account the past and the future – a person can build resilience before they hit crisis and be more likely to cope with problems that may be around the corner. Even if you think of yourself as a resilient person, this description of resilience as ‘dynamic’ means it may fluctuate during different phases of your life or in different situations. Southwick (2014)...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Citizen science and global biodiversity Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Citizen science and global biodiversity

...account the probably much larger number that became extinct before anybody had discovered and named them. The fact that organisms can become extinct before they have been described and named highlights the need to survey and quantify the occupants of the natural world. For example, consider just one group of animals – amphibians. New species of amphibian are still being...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...accounted for a further 7%, and many of the 17% of deaths attributed to ‘other causes’ were also due to infection, including TB and meningitis exacerbated by malnutrition, which contributes to over one-third of all child deaths. (Note that the ‘non-infectious neonatal causes’ depicted in the figure refer to deaths resulting from prematurity, birth asphyxia, trauma...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...Account, 3 September 1700, issue 798. British Library, Burney 123a. [Described image] Figure 8 Advertisement for sheet music in The Post Boy, 21 September 1700, issue 851. British Library, Burney 123a. Discussion The rivalry of Walsh and Vaillant and their attempts to win customers is plain to see in Walsh’s claims that his edition is better than that of Roger (the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...accounts, by some estimates, for nearly half of the British population (NatCen Social Research, 2016). Yet religion retains immense cultural influence, and the absolute numbers of religiously motivated people remain significant enough to require consideration in local and national policy decisions. A variety of religiously committed people are also regularly encountered...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom
Society, Politics & Law

Expert evidence and forensic science in the courtroom

...accountability of experts in that the assessor is formally part of the decision-making process rather than simply a witness. [Described image] Figure 4 Assistance In the following activity, you will have an opportunity to express your views on approaches to managing this issue. Sensitive topic Activity 1 Addressing ‘rape myths’ Timing: Allow about 20 minutes A variety...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...account manager. Read: from The paragraph which begins: ‘In terms of the kind of teacher she would like to be’ (p. 104) to the start of The Lived Experience of Annie (p. 110) Discussion A key barrier across the papers was stereotypical presumptions about who people were, in relation to such things as sexuality, gender, leadership style and competence. In all the...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius
History & The Arts

Leonardo's life: A timeline of genius

...account of Leonardo creating The Last Supper reported that he would stand there for the whole day, just thinking, not painting a single stroke. It was completed in 1497 and was a critical success within months. In traditional fresco painting pigment is mixed with water and painted onto wet plaster. As they dry, they fuse together permanently. Leonardo, however, used oil...
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