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Leadership challenges in turbulent times
Money & Business

Leadership challenges in turbulent times

...technological change, wars, protests or partisan conflict. Internal – turbulent organisations. Turbulence may be embedded into organisations and institutions through factional conflict, staff turnover, conflicting rules, internal reform or complex operations. (Ansell and Trondal, 2018) Given the nature and depth of change, uncertainty and interdependence in the present...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Can you put a figure on the humanitarian crisis?
Society, Politics & Law

Can you put a figure on the humanitarian crisis?

...educational, historical and spiritual issues raised by forced migration. “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas”, proclaims the familiar car-bumper sticker. Accepting refugees and migrants into one’s country is not an analgesic against an ephemeral bout of remorse – and it should not be used by governments to temporarily appease their electorates.[The...
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A World Cup legacy for generations to come
Health, Sports & Psychology

A World Cup legacy for generations to come

...educators and leaders, creating a more effective talent pathway and building a stronger relationship with the Māori Football Aotearoa. This video, produced by New Zealand Football, provides an overview of the Legacy Plan. [Legacy Starts Now] To illustrate the importance of the World Cup legacy to New Zealand and the wider region, the first ever Legacy Working Group has...
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Homage to Celtalonia
Society, Politics & Law

Homage to Celtalonia

...education; ICT; oil, gas and energy; pharmaceuticals; shipbuilding and repairs; sport and leisure; and, tourism sectors. In other words, what is termed a modern knowledge economy; In population size terms, it would be about two million smaller than the Netherlands and three million bigger than Belgium; Its total national income would be about 15% smaller than the former...
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Preparation dyeing and finishing
Money & Business

Preparation dyeing and finishing

...education is key for the ongoing improvements in the wet processing of textiles. These processes do use a lot of water but the industry is now using machines that use a lot less water and use dyes which fix to the fabric much better. This means that a t shirt dyed well uses less water at this stage then is probably used during its washing at home. Using good dyes means...
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There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!
Health, Sports & Psychology

There is a biological reason why teenagers struggle to wake up early!

...education officials’ reluctance to change traditional early starts. The US Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has drawn together many scientific studies to demonstrate that US schools should set later starting times. There is extensive medical evidence about the harms of starting school or university too early: doing so places teenage students at greater risk of...
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Writing from the heart
Education & Development

Writing from the heart

...Education at The Open University explores whether we offer young writers enough opportunities for ‘writing from the heart’...Our Teachers as Writers research reveals the highly personal nature of much writing. Threaded through our data from the Arvon residential we can see a strong sense of ‘writing from the heart’. In some ways this not surprising; we know that...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...Education at The Open University explores whether children are given enough autonomy when it comes to writing...Over the last three months the Craft of Writing team, (Debra Myhill and I, Becky Swain, Becky Coles and Sara Venner) have been recruiting schools to this new project. Funded by EEF and the RSA, it’s a partnership study between the OU, the University of Exeter...
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