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Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces
Health, Sports & Psychology

Walking the walk: improving death and dying spaces

...worked with sites across England to learn from carers. Their project – Walking the Walk – was born out of the need to improve the experience of distressed and grieving carers as their loved ones were approaching the end of life. The project has been undertaken in over 25 care settings and although each environment is different, they all have an opportunity and a...
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The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy
History & The Arts

The Italian Patient: Health care in Renaissance Italy

...work), the priorities of the society from which the funds for the treatment were forthcoming (or extracted). But the people who documented the work at the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova were not writing for us, a curious posterity; we can delight in the astonishing completeness of their records but must still be very careful about how we interpret them. In the...
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A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news
Languages

A Clockwork Orange: ultraviolence, Russian spies and fake news

...works. But 55 years after its publication, it’s still A Clockwork Orange which has the most enduring influence. One of the more unusual examples of this influence was the novel’s appropriation by the espionage community. During the 1970s, the title supposedly became the codename for an alleged campaign to undermine the prime minister, Harold Wilson. Prompted,...
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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

...working hours and keep them occupied. Both music and dance were efficient ways of entertaining large numbers of patients. By the middle of the 19th century, almost all the larger asylums in the UK had their own band and would often organise dances, attended by over a hundred patients. Asylums also hosted concerts by travelling performers, from comic sketches to solo...
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Money & Business

Risk management

...work on time, or trying to take a shortcut, or whatever it might be. Everything has a risk. And generally, we take risks so we can try and maximise or take advantage of some opportunity somewhere. Video 1 What does ‘risk’ mean?...Session 1: Living in a world of risk: 2 The importance of managing risk - Now watch Video 2 from the experts on why risk management is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...work, access to welfare, sense of identity and belonging, and practices of the everyday. Throughout human history people have migrated from their place of birth for different reasons – for example, to seek new ways of surviving, to colonise new lands, to establish new markets for trade, or because they feared for their lives in their country of origin. Large movements...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...working with a situation and you realise that you don't quite understand it, or you can't quite see what to do, or you don't know if what you did before has helped – in other words, times when you are puzzled, intrigued or worried. These times are, for you, the equivalent of a field trip for a geologist, a visit to a gallery for an art historian, or gathering vital...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...Working as a Chinese teacher in a British school, I can see little open debate on what truly makes a good lesson and whether teacher should be free to choose different teaching methods for different subjects or content. The ideas on these issues seem to set hard like concrete and seeking for a perfect Ofsted lesson become an important part of professional development for...
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