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Support for dyslexic language students through feedback
Education & Development

Support for dyslexic language students through feedback

...managers. If teachers have contact with their dyslexic student’s mentor, they should welcome and discuss any suggestions given and ensure the student is given consistent advice. Students also need to understand the different role that their teacher and their dyslexia Tutor or mentor play and the different type of support they offer. In particular, the student needs to...
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Article 10 mins
What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...management, and the duty to plough any profit back into the charity’s services and not distribute it to private hands. There is also an overarching duty to act only in the best interests of the charity in the course of their trusteeship. Carrying out these legal duties can in itself lead to negative publicity, such as when the Church of England chases people for...
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Mastering our fear of death with the Jack-o’-lantern
History & The Arts

Mastering our fear of death with the Jack-o’-lantern

...manageable way. Festival can be understood like this: as a temporary suspension of our usual rules or ways of coping; a time when familiar oppositions – such as life and death, inside and outside, self and other – become uncertain. Halloween may delight us in this way. Yet our thrills likely depend on how we know the costumes will soon be replaced by everyday clothes....
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Article 5 mins
Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...Management Appraisers and Appeal Appraiser(s) pay review and pay review appeals grievance and grievance appeals capability and capability appeals complaints procedures. Each governing body committee will have a reference document setting out its powers and duties, its place in the reporting structure, minimum number of governors. This must be reviewed annually. More...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century
Science, Maths & Technology

Preparing for your digital life in the 21st Century

...managing your money online or over the phone, or using an ATM – the machines involved are connected via a network to a central computer, which has records of your account in an electronic filing system known as a database. Financial services have undergone huge changes in recent years as a result of developments in the digital technologies driving them. The examples...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Introduction to critical criminology
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to critical criminology

...project of seeking the ‘scientific facts’ that can explain criminality has been – and continues to be – a dominant strand within academic criminology. Positivism does not concern itself with the abstract and unprovable, but rather with the tangible and quantifiable. Through the acquisition of ‘objective knowledge’ it is assumed that most social problems can be...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Achieving public dialogue
Science, Maths & Technology

Achieving public dialogue

...manage more effectively the process of consensus conferences in the UK context (perceptions about the independence of the steering committee and the lay panel, media influences, timescales, etc.). Although the first UKNCC seemed to have little measurable long-term impact, there is no doubt that the second one on radioactive waste addressed some of the key lessons learned...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...management with the words “That’s why I need a graphic designer”. As a result he was able to employ John Sewell, British televisions first full-time graphic designer in December 1954. John Sewell was a recent graduate of the Royal College of Arts School of Graphic Design who specialised in illustration and also had an interest in filmmaking. His role in television...
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