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Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...education and the advice of others, was how to take the time to pause, to reflect on his experience and to actively explore his own thoughts. When doing self-reflection like this it is useful to note down your thoughts so that you can revisit them again at another time. You can also see if your thinking has changed over time. Self-reflection is something you will find...
Different types of business
Money & Business

Different types of business

...education. [Described image] Figure 2 A steelworks It is useful to distinguish these broad economic sectors as we can see that there will be important differences between a business operating in the primary sector and one that provides a service. Nonetheless, it would also seem obvious that there may be big differences between businesses within the same broad economic...
Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
The family at the centre of early learning
Education & Development

The family at the centre of early learning

...Education, 2021) the funds and knowledge concept is helpful with all children, but particularly helpful when thinking about bilingual children because they are coming with linguistic and cultural forms of knowledge. This might, for example, include knowledge about languages, histories and places, as well as about types of narratives, foods or clothing, or attitudes to...
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...education or training, anxious about our future. Some of us had shown great promise at school, but now we were stuck, most of our parents could not pay for our further education and there were no national projects to employ us. And here we were, hating the place we loved, because it was on the verge of choking us to death. This was the state of the Caribbean at that time....
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...Education site Techopedia (2017) defines disruptive technology as ‘any enhanced or completely new technology that replaces and disrupts an existing technology, rendering it obsolete. It is designed to succeed similar technology that is already in use.’ Păvăloaia and Necula (2023) conclude that the five most prominent examples of disruptive ......
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...technology have dramatically changed the nature of communications and the ways of reaching target markets. This is particularly true of younger consumers which many social marketing programmes seek to target. The use of the internet as a complementary channel to television and other media was adopted in the UK in the ‘Get Unhooked’ smoking cessation campaign...Social...
Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
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Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...education. You will look at the different sources of information university students normally read. University readings can be long and approaching them can be daunting. You will consider some of the challenges students sometimes face when approaching these readings and learn an active reading method which allows you to break a reading task in to small manageable steps....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing key global development challenges
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing key global development challenges

...educational policy, creating international defence alliances, or developing a global transport system are forms of deliberate development. Such changes affect all of us, our livelihoods, and our wellbeing to a greater or lesser extent, depending on where we are located in the overall picture. The issues of deep concern associated with development, such as environmental...