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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...types have often sought to dress or look the part. Activity 5 Who do you see as a leader? Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Leadership comes in many guises. Which of the following would you see as a leader, and why? [Described image] Figure 3 Which of these are leaders? Top, left to right: Bill Gates, Nelson Mandela, Taylor Swift. Bottom, left to right: Norman...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...type of education which affects the mind, heart, soul, body, and that means the person is very wholesome. That would be my type of education. I mean quality education. There are different aspects of quality. I mean like different dimensions that go to make up the quality education, which I’m sure Matha will pick up from there. MATHA Thank you Sister and interviewer....
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?
Society, Politics & Law

Syria: who's involved, and what do they want?

...de-escalation zones in Syria, but recent Israeli air strikes and the looming threat of Western action against Assad bring in the very real spectre of direct clashes – with Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Russia on one side, and Western and Israeli forces on the other. Turkey Alpaslan Ozerdem, Coventry University At the end of their trilateral Syrian summit on April 4, the...
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Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...phrase the ‘literacy myth’ dates from 1979; however, it has come into prominence again with the current tendency to stress the links between literacy and the economy in numerous educational and curricular policies and in the work of economists interested in investigating aspects of human capital and economic growth. You may have noted when reflecting on the questions...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...type of smooth, repeating waveform. And they will generally represent the way many natural phenomena vary in time and space. They have this characteristic smooth undulating shape which repeats itself. You can turn them into sound. And if you do, they have a very characteristic sound that people often describe as pure. This is an example. [BEEP] This is a bigger one....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...type of education and outlook. Far from being scientific reductionists inclined to see their patients simply in terms of diseased organs, these clinicians, like the eighteenth-century practitioners described by Jewson, saw the patient as a sick man, suffering from a unique and individual case of a disease, its course affected by lifestyle and environment. They prided...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...phrase that probably a lot of you have heard, ‘net zero’. What does it mean? It simply means that we have to get our collection of greenhouse gas emissions, that’s carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and some industrial gases along the way as well, we have to collectively stop emitting these into the atmosphere like it the atmosphere is just a dustbin and we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list
Science, Maths & Technology

Taxes and privacy: A tech business reading list

...type of news coverage a significant number of its users see. So what does it mean when it’s promoting blatantly false news and clickbait aggregation? How can legitimate news outlets operate in this environment when they are becoming increasingly reliant on Facebook? Do users even care that they’re being fed stories from sites of ill repute? Read at NiemanLabs:...
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