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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
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...system to a public audience. Almost eleven years later, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began broadcasting the world’s first regular high-definition television service, on the 2nd of November 1936. Television broadcasts were suspended with the outbreak ofthe Second World War. When they resumed in 1946, television started to become very successful, especially...
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Article 15 mins
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...thinking about race. Gloria Ladson-Billings describes its emergence to counter a positivist liberal approach in Law. The slow pace of legal reform in the United States led thinkers to put forward the idea that racism is normal in American society. (An argument that is becoming more mainstream now.) Critical Race Theory particularly wanted to look at the way education...
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Article 10 mins
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
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...think about how to develop rapport, and allows you to plan for, and reflect on, your everyday interactions in order to build rapport effectively. It focuses on conversations that might be considered ‘difficult’, and encourages effective listening and effective diagnosis of interpersonal behaviour....Sure, I know how to talk to people!: Introduction - Good...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...think about the meaning of, and your own impressions about, law and lawyers. Activity 1 Perceptions of law Timing: 15 minutes Write down up to five words or phrases, or draw images, that you associate with ‘law’. Try to focus on what law means to you personally. (You may want to return to what you have written later on in the course and reflect on whether your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution
History & The Arts

Simone de Beauvoir and the feminist revolution

...think that human beings always have a choice. Existentialists tell us that we are free – but what do they mean? And, if we are all free, won't an individual’s freedom be limited by other people’s freedom? Sartre also says that freedom is not something we enjoy but rather a burden. Why should it be a burden? The answers to these questions spring out of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...think of Mongolia? My answer, probably like many people’s, was vast empty space, those signature round white tents (which Mongolians call gers, not ‘yurts’ – a word brought in during the country’s period under Russian and Soviet influence) and Genghis Khan. One thing you might not think of is ‘a good place to die’. Yet Mongolia is punching above its weight...
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Article 15 mins