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The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses
Society, Politics & Law

The 2015 Autumn Statement: First responses

...social policy and housing, University of Stirling The spending review promises to unveil “the biggest affordable housebuilding programme since the 1970s with a particular focus on the creation of 400,000 "affordable homes” by 2020. As a useful comparison, research in Scotland indicates the need for a minimum of 12,000 of these over the next five years. But there is a...
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Ramadan: What do you need to know?
Education & Development

Ramadan: What do you need to know?

...working hours. While many Muslims increase their worship during this month, the majority also continue with their normal duties as usual. Muslim staff may wish to have some flexibility within their work arrangements, if it can be accommodated within the operations of the business. If this is the case, flexible arrangements should be agreed and granted in accordance with...
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An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...work you do. Your blog, social media, website, or newsletter, as well as the activity you do around promoting books and events, will implicitly champion your library. However, you can take your advocacy to the next level by engaging more directly with your stakeholders and developing effective channels of communication. For example, you can further your library’s cause...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...working. The course would be of interest to teachers, parents and carers, and can be studied on an individual basis or as part of a school-based training session...What do you think being creative means? This free course, Creativity, community and ICT, engages with the debates surrounding the term 'creativity' and explores ways in which ICT creates new opportunities for...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
The importance of interpersonal skills
Money & Business

The importance of interpersonal skills

...work tasks we are responsible for...To succeed in management you need good interpersonal skills, you need to understand how to deal with other people. This free course, The importance of interpersonal skills, will help you gain an awareness of your own skills and understand that an awareness of the interpersonal skills of others can help us enormously in dealing with the...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Planning a better future
Education & Development

Planning a better future

...social life before work, have little concern about progressing your career and might be seen as ‘laid-back’. If you have a more central score, you keep a balance between work and leisure. You have some concern about doing well and making progress, but you don’t let work rule your life. Has completing this activity altered the rating you gave to your ‘work–life...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Markets in crisis
Society, Politics & Law

Markets in crisis

...social, economic and political systems we have in place today. This material forms part of The Open University course DD309 Doing economics: people, markets and policy... Markets in Crisis A short introduction to this album Human motivation during a global crisis Nobel prize winner Amartya Sen expresses that now more than ever it's time to re-think the social, economic...
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Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion
Society, Politics & Law

Kropotkin, anarchism and geography: A discussion

...work and extraordinary life story of Peter Kropotkin, a Russian geographer who died almost a hundred years ago but who still provides us with some interesting insights today. So, Philip, who was Peter Kropotkin? Philip O’Sullivan: Hi Andy, Peter Kropotkin was born into the aristocracy of Tsar Sasha in Moscow in the early 1840s. He was an explorer, a scientist and a...
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