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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...think – and decisions always need to be made immediately. I seem to spend all my time talking to people and never actually doing anything. When Carly finished speaking, she apologised. Her line manager laughed and said: ‘Welcome to the world of management!’ This confusing world has been the subject of much analysis by management writers who have tried to make sense...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Camille Parmesan - Stories of Change

...systems. The emergence of anthropogenic global warming as a major threat steered her research to focus on biological impacts of climate change in natural systems. Her research spans from field-based work on butterflies to synthetic analyses of global impacts on a broad range of species across terrestrial and marine biomes. She works actively with governmental agencies and...
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...systems, but just at an incredible scale. This scale multiplies the cloud’s impact, both good and bad. Our job at an organisational IT level is to know how to recognise and minimise the negative, while promoting and accelerating the good. This article looks at just some of the ways cloud contributes to our digital carbon footprints from processing workloads to the...
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Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...think about the following questions. Note down your thoughts in the box below. What relationships does Nina have in the care home? What do they mean to her? How do these relationships support her? KAY: Hi, my name is Kay. And this is my mom, Nina. And we're here in Ballyholme, Abbeyfield and Wesley. And mom's going to tell you a little bit about why she's here and how she...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...think about your part in the many roles that teaching assistants can play. One interesting feature of the teaching assistant workforce is the extent to which it is overwhelmingly female. Why are women, especially many who are mothers, drawn to this work, and why are there so few men? This is one of the themes you will explore in this unit. As with teachers and their work,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...think GPs listen to them? But one simple question can bring up a huge amount of information. How would you know that Google has provided you with the best information at the top of the list? You might have thousands of entries to look at. How do you know what to look at first, or how much information to look through? Then you have to think about the reliability of the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...think about Why we read fiction? What do we hope to gain from reading stories about imagined events that happen to imaginary people? Robert DiYanni begins his impressively wide-ranging study Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay (1997) with the following assertion about why we read: We read stories for pleasure; they entertain us. And we read them for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...think its useful for you right now it might be something you can use in future, in that case you can use a favourites bar. You just star it and its saved in your shortlist for next time. When you’re looking for resources it’s going to be different to what everybody else is looking for because you’ve always got in mind the needs of your learners and the children you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs