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Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...busy teaching all of the time. It was only a few years ago that I did my PGCE and it’s nice now, a few years later, to be able to be a mentor and realise how far that I’ve come in those few years to be in the position where I can give advice and feedback and support somebody else – it’s quite rewarding to have been through that cycle. It's good being a mentor...
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...businesses. It would be concerned with the processes that established the visual conventions of advertising photography. The production of such images presupposes a network of models, agents, and photographers, all specialising in such work. Its economy and organisation are therefore important issues. Now look at ‘The French family watch the Cup Final’ (‘French’...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...business. You can see the ephemera of a normal everyday life. The toys, books, musical instruments, and other amusements. Until one day in 1986 life there came to a stop. However, while the exclusion zone may look lush, vegetation contains high levels of radioactive material. You certainly wouldn't like those apples. The surrounding forest is regularly checked for...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Caring for adults
Health, Sports & Psychology

Caring for adults

...busy since I started working for the agency. I have done a lot of work with Leonard Cheshire as a home carer. I feel that I have established a good reputation for reliability as I never like to let my clients down. My kids are quite happy to look after themselves before and after school and they are old enough to leave safely. I think they would like me to be around a bit...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru
Money & Business

Entrepreneuriaeth Gwledig yng Nghymru

...business organisation, every sub-unit of an organisation and even every individual (ought to) have a clearly defined set of purposes or goals that keep it moving in a deliberately chosen direction and prevent it drifting in an undesired direction.’ Porter (1985) ‘A process of analysis that is designed to achieve the competitive advantage of one organisation over...
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...business with an extraordinary portfolio of sporting rights, went bankrupt. A victim of over-ambition and slack management. When the Swiss authorities started looking through the company’s files, another story began to emerge. Yann Sayre Andersen. YANN SAYRE ANDERSEN And this was when the massive corruption system was discovered. Later, there was a court case in...
Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...busy lifestyle. ILONA: Do you live at home? ALEX: Yeah, I do at the moment. But I do one day hope to have my own place. ...Week 1: Introducing the autism spectrum: 6 Brief history of autism: key players and milestones - We will end this introduction to autism with some historical background. Autism was first described in the early 1940s, and with developments in...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...Business girls like Cuticura’, cartoon from Illustrated London News, 11 July 1925, p. 96. Photo: © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans. Activity 10 Look at the two images of women in Figures 2 and 3 and answer the following questions: The two images are different types of primary source – can you identify these? In what light is women’s fashion presented in both...