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Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...based arguments – are also highly valued in employment and are useful in negotiating life more generally. Religious studies develops ways of understanding and relating to others whose deeply held positions are very different from your own. These skills can help you establish and maintain a dialogue with those you encounter, in many different situations...Religious...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Three principles of a coaching approach
Money & Business

Three principles of a coaching approach

...based on very subjective ‘gut feeling’. In our coaching role it is our job to create a first impression for our coachees that allows them to feel comfortable and reassured right from the first moments – especially if they do not know us very well. Coachees may feel a little anxious about the coaching and will certainly be in a state of high attention coming in to a...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
On-screen graphic design: The early years of television
Science, Maths & Technology

On-screen graphic design: The early years of television

...based on newspaper cartoons – for example, if there was a story about the pound being weak, a cartoon drawing of a pound sign wearing bandages and using crutches was shown. Realising that this was at odds with communicating a serious news item, Lambie-Nairn developed a new method of presenting this sort of information in a more appropriate graphical manner. It was with...
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Article 15 mins
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...based painkillers. Less than a decade later, her mother-in-law was struck down by liver cancer, and Odontuya says she too died in extreme distress. What she calls the “psychological pain” of witnessing a loved one in such a state affected everyone in her family, she says. It was a trauma that many more families have gone through since, because of a steady increase in...
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Article 15 mins
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...based on the formal testing of a subset of what they are likely to know. For example, a grade ascribed on a short answer test may say little about an aspect of the topic that was not on the test, and says nothing about a student’s problem solving or creative skills in mathematics, nor about their ability to work in groups or engage in extended tasks. Perhaps all that...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Neighbourhood nature
Nature & Environment

Neighbourhood nature

...based on its age, history and the types of trees found growing within it. Primary woodland has existed continuously since the end of the last glaciation. Any surviving today is inevitably a tiny fragment of the original area. Secondary woodland originated in areas that have at some time been unwooded, e.g. land used at some point in history for agriculture but was later...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...based on common sense. Keynes piled in, in a pamphlet entitled ‘Can Lloyd George do it?’, written with a politician, Hubert Henderson. This aimed to supplement and to answer criticisms of the Liberal Party pamphlet mentioned above. Keynes wrote: The Liberal Policy is one of plain common sense. The Conservative belief that there is some law of nature which prevents men...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...based on that. A library development plan strategically outlines your priorities to raise standards and identifies the measures to achieve your goals. A typical library development plan will include a short introduction that summarises your previous year’s evaluation and sets out a rationale for any changes you intend to implement. This is usually followed by a table...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs