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Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...changes across time. These and alternative measures of wellbeing will be discussed further in this course. Whether you felt this was a fair representation of the UK might depend on your own experiences and those of young people you know. There are frequent media reports claiming the mental or physical health of children and young people today is getting worse and their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Human resources: recruitment and selection
Money & Business

Human resources: recruitment and selection

...change in organisations mean that the jobs for which people are recruited often change. Consequently, organisations may be interested in potential beyond the immediate job, and people have the capacity to influence the organisation's performance beyond the boundaries of their own jobs. Increasingly, it is seen as important to ensure that there is also a fit between the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Pain and Aspirin
Science, Maths & Technology

Pain and Aspirin

...change at a time and tested each new product on his father who had rheumatism, until in 1898 he arrived at a product that was as effective as salicylic acid, but lacked the severe irritation and taste problems. This new material was given the name aspirin and, after further clinical trials was manufactured and marketed by the company Bayer, as the first medicinal drug to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths
Education & Development

Additional efforts: Why we need to be better at maths

...fall behind, often leading to negative attitudes, poor self-efficacy, and disengagement. We need to stop allowing those around us, in our lives and in the media, to make such negative statements about mathematics – if we don’t take a stand things will never change.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Article 5 mins
How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?
Society, Politics & Law

How should we read Donald Trump's first Presidential speech?

...changed course again, ending up in an almost prophetic vein with a string of new metaphors: “now arrives the hour of action”, “we stand at the birth of new millennium”, “a new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions”. Trace the progression of these central metaphors and you see an interesting progression. First come the...
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Article 5 mins
How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?
Money & Business

How did United Airlines get their PR response so wrong?

...changed, and customer service suffered. Customers switched to other airlines and Delta went bankrupt. Now, Delta is thriving again, in large part due to its focus on keeping both staff and customers happy. Will the same thing happen to United? The damage could be serious, especially if there is another similar incident in the future. In the age of smartphones and social...
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Video 5 mins
Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?
Money & Business

Did the economic outlook encourage a snap election?

...change of mind is something much more commonplace. She has read the economic runes and thinks, as I do, that they do not present a pretty picture for her prospects. Come 2020, if she lets this parliament run its prescribed course, she would face a difficult electorate, fractious at the cost of a Brexit that may well have delivered on little of its promises. Calling an...
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Article 5 mins
How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump's 'fire and fury' threatens to destabilise the Asian Pacific region

...change. And by promising “fire and fury” Trump actually plays into Kim’s hands and replicates the aggressive and posturing rhetoric of the North Korean regime. North Korean state media predictably responded with reports Kim is “actively considering” a pre-emptive missile attack on the US Pacific island territory of Guam, with the country’s military experts...
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Article 5 mins