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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene

...change things. Security arrangements at bases will change, and there will be changes to the routine that soldiers have allowed to develop as the peace has been built and as they have relaxed into those changing circumstances. But juggling resources - reviewing operations - is part and parcel of what goes on here, part of the security task and job. "That's what we do all...
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Article 5 mins
Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...changing ideas about children have led many social scientists to claim that childhood is a ‘social construction’. They use this term to mean that understandings of childhood are not the same everywhere and that while all societies acknowledge that children are different from adults, how they are different and what expectations are placed on them, change according to...
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Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...changes in circumstances. Payments can reach £5,000 to £6,000 but many have been forced to pay back some or all of their tax credits. Backbench MPs, who wrote more than 5,000 tax credit complaint letters in the first five months of this year, say many families persuaded to leave benefits and return to work by promises of tax credits take on extra commitments, including...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...change and improvement. The course considers some key issues and concepts in educational leadership and, among others, considers the question of what might constitute good practice in educational leadership and how the capacity to lead might be understood and developed. The importance of planning and evaluating professional learning development as part of this process is...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...change as planned – because of failed IT systems. Many more examples, from the private, public and voluntary sectors, may come to your mind. But what exactly do we mean by success or failure in an IT system? This course mostly focuses on success, and helps you understand what we mean by a successful IT system. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...change and summarise why that is. (For example, if you spend a lot of time being sedentary and sitting for long periods, why is it challenging to be more active?) Comment Instigating change in relation to some lifestyle factors is harder than others, particularly where we have less control over them. For many people, their job requires that they sit for long periods in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

...change within an educational institution...Leadership for inclusion: what you can do?: 1 Who are leaders? - [speech bubble image with the text: ‘Do I have to be in charge?’] This course is premised on the view that if we want to achieve an inclusive school we cannot rely upon bureaucratic processes or the school leadership team or others in the system to deliver it....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...changed and revised along the way. It usually, but not exclusively, starts with a problem which raises questions that then might then be revised and refined, or even discarded. Any process of investigation is complex and any one stage might expose further questions and require further decisions to be made as it progresses. Each stage of the research depends on decisions...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs