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Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...institutional codes of conduct expects engineers to address risk thoroughly – applying in-depth, long-term thinking – so that they may help to encourage greater awareness of risk in others with whom they work. The key elements of the Engineering Council’s Guidance on Risk are listed below. Apply professional and responsible judgement and take a leadership role....
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A freelance career in the creative arts Badge icon
History & The Arts

A freelance career in the creative arts

...et al., 2010). BA Decorative Art graduate – freelance glassmaker, button maker, gallery employee and trainer ‘I started off by working in a gallery. […] The staff were wonderful and I started teaching there; that was a big break. […] Now I work in a gallery one day a week, I work as an invigilator (which is quite a menial job but it gives me a chance to think), I...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...institutional ones. In the following video, Jacob Morgan talks about what leaders need to consider around flexibility in the workplace, and how to manage employee expectations of this. JACOB MORGAN: Some people will come in to an office and other people won't. It depends on the work that you're doing. If you're working in a manufacturing facility, if you're working in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...et al., 2012), although this estimate could easily be doubled or trebled depending on manufacturing processes and efficiencies...Environmental management and organisations: 11.1.2 Waste production - At the other end of the input–output model, outputs from organisations in the form of waste are also significant. It is not possible to determine global waste outputs from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Teaching secondary music
Education & Development

Teaching secondary music

...Institute of Education in London talks about how her interest in informal learning in music developed from an investigation she did into how popular musicians learn. Early on in the video, Green identifies five practices of informal learning. She then goes on to describe examples of how informal learning practices have been implemented into classroom music. Activity 9...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Florida, US [Online]. Available at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=C2Pq4N-iE4I (Accessed 20 December 2012)...Introduction to computational thinking: Acknowledgements - This course was written by Paul Piwek (with input from Alistair Willis for Activities 1 and 3). Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...Institute of Cancer Research in London stood up and said: “I came as something of a sceptic. But what I’ve seen about it looks incredibly interesting and promising…”) “This has been a difficult journey,” Guest says. “The past ten years have been about careful persuasion of the medical profession and scientists.” Now, though, she says she is contacted...
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Article 5 mins
Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Tim Scoones - Earth in Vision

...institution going, ‘Let’s do this.’ I think there would certainly be the appetite to do that, we now have the technology to do it, I think now it’s a case of finding the will and the wallet to do it. Should the BBC release its archive to the public? The idea of taking our archive, taking our rushes in particular, our raw footage and releasing it more openly so...
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Video 40 mins