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Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...et al. 1999, and I thought wow! I was wrong to be sceptical, this is really scary, because it’s clearly unprecedented, it bears no relation to what’s happened at the Medieval warm period and that kind of thing, and so when in the following years I’ve discovered – RH: So you wrote about it at that point? MR: No I didn’t, I wasn’t writing about climate change...
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Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...et al., 2008) Activity 3 Recovery groups for employment Timing: Allow about 1 hour 10 minutes There are two tasks in this activity. You’ll start by thinking through how you could put recovery principles into action to meet Nick and Louis’ needs before looking at a real-life example of a recovery group. Part A Timing: Allow about 30 minutes Working from the recovery...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Listening to young children: supporting transition
Education & Development

Listening to young children: supporting transition

...et al., 2016, p. 443) You can see from this example that listening to children through their learning stories, can support them to make meaning with others about their identity as learners as well as develop an understanding of the role they might adopt in different settings. Summary points Boundary objects are physical items that can be carried between the boundaries of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Challenges in advanced management accounting
Money & Business

Challenges in advanced management accounting

...et al., 2005, p. 30) Figure 1 Categorisation of customers by cost and profitability For a commercial organisation, the extent to which it should enter into a relationship is likely to be determined (in large part) by the potential profitability of the customer. Customers can be categorised into four groups: Sleeping giants: these customers generate a lot of profit, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...institution in which the teaching/learning transaction takes place, and the Examination Board or Qualification Standards which govern the award of credit for learning. As both the Primer and Diagramming packs suggest, the purpose for which the map is created will determine whether components are placed inside or outside the boundary. For my purposes here, attention is...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...institutional features of an organisation but also the relationships between the people. Estyn inspects Welsh schools and provides feedback on leadership and management as part of the current reporting framework. Although Estyn’s reports provide a summary and grading of the school’s leadership and management, the length of the inspection cycle will often mean that...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...institutions adhere to. In the next activity, you will look at what you can typically do to reference OMT correctly in an essay. So, before you start writing: check the rules and regulations that apply to you. keep track of what you’re doing and give specific information if and how you used the tools. For example, look here for The Open University’s suggestion on how...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits Badge icon
Education & Development

Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...institution for higher learning in the Western world. He laid the foundations for Western philosophy, science, and maths, along with being one of the founders of Western religion and spirituality, a very early adopter of interdisciplinary studies. His student Aristotle was also a philosopher and scientist. His writings cover many areas, including physics, biology,...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs