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World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga
History & The Arts

World-Changing Women: Queen Nzinga

...managed to call a halt to Portuguese slave raids in her kingdom through clever tactics. Read about her legacy in this article... Queen Nzinga c.1581-1663 Modern-day Angola State Leadership [Queen Nzinga image] Drawing of Queen Nzinga In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, city states along the Central African coast began to be of interest to Portuguese...
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Article 5 mins
Can you harness intrapreneurship?
Money & Business

Can you harness intrapreneurship?

...Management, this webinar is designed to inspire employers, unpacking the unique mindset and skills that distinguish intrapreneurs and how these individuals can be identified and enabled in an organisational environment. Transcript Webinar 2: Fostering an intrapreneurial culture Session two looks at how employers build an intrapreneurial culture with the help of Duncan...
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Video 4 hrs
What failing in the learning journey feels like
Education & Development

What failing in the learning journey feels like

...management. Students who fail often withdraw socially and academically, assuming they are alone in their experience. In reality, many students share similar feelings of shock, loss, and confusion. They express a desire for peer connection, for someone to say, ‘I’ve been there.’ The absence of visible failure narratives within the student community or institutional...
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Article 5 mins
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...Introduction - [Described image] Figure 1 The conversation prism by Brian Solis and JESS3, The Conversation Prism 2.0. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Licence https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/deed.en Infographics are becoming an essential tool in data representation, sense-making and research communication. In this free course,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?
Money & Business

Battered, Hurt, ...Shutting? Why has BHS struggled on the high street?

...manage the business, BHS failed in this and fell behind. The fastest growing retailers in the UK today are identified by their omni-channel approach, innovative use of physical stores, clever deployment of emerging technologies and international strategies. Whether large or small, success comes from understanding and engaging consumers and meeting their needs; things that...
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Article 5 mins
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated by the constraints they are working within yet, you will see how committed they are to doing their best for patients and for their organisation. Hospitals...
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Article 10 mins
Porn licensing isn't the answer
Digital & Computing

Porn licensing isn't the answer

...managed by people capable of devising alternate methods to deliver it that they’d have little trouble circumnavigating any future rules. For parents, part of the problem is how you manage your children’s use of the internet. You can’t hover over their shoulder every time they go online but leaving them exposed to all that is out there is an appealing prospect too....
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Article 5 mins
Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...management”, which placed a focus on using employment, diet, surroundings and recreational activities as forms of therapy. When state-run asylums were first introduced in Britain in the early 19th century, music soon became included as a form of moral management to distract patients outside of working hours and keep them occupied. Both music and dance were efficient...
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