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Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...Education (PE) teacher – offers a unique opportunity to understand a carer’s relationship with physical activity. Activity 6 Timing: Allow approximately 20 minutes. Listen to Audio 3 in which Martin discusses how his relationship with physical activity changed once he became a carer to his mum. Does Martin’s experience resonate with you? DR NICHOLA KENTZER: Martin,...
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...technology is adding more and more information about these long-distance migrations and arctic terns have been fitted with lightweight geolocators that record data that enables their position to be calculated twice each day. The devices have a mass of just 1.9 g. Information about rate of travel contributes to an understanding of the energetic costs of migration, but...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor
History & The Arts

The repute and reality of being a Roman emperor

...education who served the emperor and some of whom wrote or commissioned diverse forms of literature, largely for the consumption of men of the same standing. Within this literature opinions were expressed and judgements passed on emperors, although when studying these it needs to be remembered that the authors often had their own political agendas or were influenced by...
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...education listed here is ‘attention training’ or ‘ethical mindfulness’ (the distinction made towards the end of the Beyond Belief programme). Teaching mindfulness skills in the military to help soldiers to be better at targeting the opponent, and coping with any post-traumatic stress disorder they experience. attention training ethical mindfulness a. attention...
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...educated readership would probably be familiar with the background story but the modern reader may be finding out for the first time that Daedalus was fleeing justice and retribution when he left Athens and took refuge in Crete. Daedalus had tried to murder his nephew, Talos, who had been entrusted to him as a second son to learn the craftsman’s trade, but whose...
Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...education. You're doing projects. You work. No one actually tells you some of this stuff about human relationships and nonverbal signals and all this sort of thing. But they are, I think, part of the armory of managers. You do need that if-- because at the end of the day, for most of us, our only asset is the people around us. Laptops, phones, the desks-- that's not what...
Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)
Money & Business

Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO)

...education, training and continuous development of the PMO personnel required to carry out these tasks is also the responsibility of the PMO...Project governance and Project Management Office (PMO): 2.2.1 PMO within organisational culture - An alternative approach to classifying the type of PMO is to consider the degree of control and influence that the PMO has on the...
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...technology is now needed to ensure economical and sustainable water management. As the population increases, industries develop and the understanding of the health implications of pollutants grows. Pollution is defined as the introduction into the environment (water, air or land) of contaminants, the quantities, characteristics and duration of which are likely to be...