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Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?
Education & Development

Are you a socially intelligent educational leader?

...intelligent leader. At its core, inclusive leadership practice is challenging. Leaders will often set the tone for inclusion by modelling socially intelligent behaviours – staying attuned to complexities, listening to diverse perspectives, taking thoughtful action, and advocating for systemic change. As a leader, this might mean asking difficult questions about your own...
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace

...intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing emotional intelligence skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better relationships; adapting to, and coping...
Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST) Badge icon
Digital & Computing

Gamified Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST)

...Intelligent Cyber Aptitude and Skills Training (GICAST), will help you to understand online security and start to protect your digital life, whether at home or work. You will learn how to recognise the threats that could harm you online and the steps you can take to reduce the chances that they will happen to you...Our lives depend on online services. Gain essential cyber...
How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can you tell if a signal from space is an alien communication?

...intelligent species. But how can you be sure you've tuned in to aliens and not just got interference? Andy Norton explains...[An alien in a phone box] Phone home ... yeah, right ... by Jinterwas Astronomers working at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico have detected a weird radio signal, spotted when pointing their telescope at the nearby star Ross 128. They’re...
Why ‘sugar-free’ is not recommended as a substitute for sugary drinks and foods
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why ‘sugar-free’ is not recommended as a substitute for sugary drinks and foods

...artificial sweeteners? And, furthermore, what research supports or discourages the consumption of 'sugar-free' products?...[A selection of artificial sweeteners.] Many companies producing sugar-sweetened drinks, such as fizzy drinks or concentrated squash, or foods such as yoghurts, promote ‘sugar-free’ or low-sugar versions with artificial sweeteners. As artificial...
Assisted dying or non-assisted living?
Society, Politics & Law

Assisted dying or non-assisted living?

...intelligent and humane system that does not prolong a life of suffering. When Mother Nature says it’s time to go, we should be able to choose whether to acquiesce or rebel, whether to accept the inevitable or fight for one last hurrah. It might be that the legislation is already in place to allow this, but anecdotal evidence suggests it is, in practice, a grey area that...
Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Warming winters: How will the Winter Olympics adapt?

...artificial snow to night-time only, when the temperatures drop sufficiently for the snow-making process to work, and jeopardised the adequate preparation of the pistes, courses and jumps that will host many of the skiing and snowboarding competitions. This challenge in itself reflects the increasing prevalence of warmer weather in the Alps which is attributable to climate...
Sharpening Your Critical Thinking
History & The Arts

Sharpening Your Critical Thinking

...intelligent alien life elsewhere in the Universe, whereas I think there isn’t. Or perhaps you think that Wellington is the capital of New Zealand, while I think it’s Auckland. It’s possible to disagree about almost anything. [Roger Federer serving during one of his matches at the 2012 London Olympics.] Roger Federer serving during one of his matches at the 2012...