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Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...systems’ approach’ to teamwork – a helpful approach which encourages managers to consider the context in which a team works. The approach considers team processes, which are divided into three parts: inputs, throughputs and outputs. These highlight the different issues and activities a manager needs to engage with or oversee during the life of a team. To prepare for...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Exploring Ovid’s big ideas
History & The Arts

Exploring Ovid’s big ideas

...thinking about the modern world’s biggest questions...In an age where machines seem to be doing more and more ‘human’ tasks, we are all constantly grappling with the question: ‘what makes a human, human’? The Roman poet Ovid also asked this question – it was one of many big questions about the world that he asked which we are still struggling with today....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...think each of them is communicating. Comment a.Bird singing – could be trying to defend its territory or attract a mate. b.Ambulance with flashing lights and siren – get out of the way, I’m in a hurry. c.Phone with incoming text message – someone wants to ask or tell another person something. d.Cat winding itself around its owner’s feet and purring loudly –...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can acceptance and commitment therapy help carers in challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic?

...thinking’ (such as the more commonly known CBT approach), the focus of ACT is on how to create a meaningful life despite the difficulties that we all encounter in life. It is therefore a very useful therapy where peoples’ worries and low mood are a valid response to a difficult situation. Whilst ACT is a type of therapy that can be completed with the support of a...
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Article 10 mins
‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?
Nature & Environment

‘Land grab’: an environmental issue?

...think both about the fact that environmental change always touches down in particular places and at particular moments, and the fact that to understand the full impact of these changes we often need to look further afield. Geographers and Environmental Studies researchers use the concepts of risk and uncertainty to draw attention to the fact that decisions about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...think about the benefits – as well as the potential challenges and dilemmas – that working in partnership can bring. You will be building on your previous learning about the nature of leadership and of organisations as you explore the issues that arise when people from different organisations – with their different structures and cultures – try to work together....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...Thinking about your own geographical learning and that of students, how would you define progress? Can you identify and explain any difficulties in ‘pinning down’ exactly what progression means? Are you aware of other educational stakeholders who would define progress in different ways? If so: Who are they? What are their criteria? Why do they differ? Jot down your...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Standards for better cotton
Money & Business

Standards for better cotton

...think of their clothes and where they come from, they most often imagine a factory in China, India or Bangladesh. A crowded workplace filled with people sewing on buttons and ironing shirts you will wear on a night out. What we often don’t realise is that millions of people were involved in producing your shirt even before it got to that factory– farmers who grow...
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Article 5 mins