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Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...et al., 2013). However, others argue that it can be very helpful to be self-aware about the approaches you are taking to learning, and to try out new approaches to learning more effectively...Developing your skills as an HR professional: 2 Using reflection to improve performance - The ability to reflect on actions, and how effective they were, is expected of managers and,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...et al., 2014, p. 153) Figure 1 An example of innovation in policing The imperative for innovation in a policing context has been broadly recognised and is highlighted in the National Police Chief Council’s Policing Vision 2025 policy document. One author makes the point, however, that understanding and defining innovation in policing can at times be less than...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...et al. (2014) remind us that there can often be much higher concentrations of bacteria within an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting than outside and of course world events such as the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led to a renewed interest in using the outdoors as a protective factor against spreading disease. Research offers evidence in several areas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...articles and use the footnotes to find others on the same topic. A systematic literature review is where you create keywords and search databases to find all of the relevant articles. It is very important that you keep notes of the databases searched, the date, the number of articles produced, and how many were relevant. Coming up with keywords is important to direct your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Battle of Thermopylae
History & The Arts

Battle of Thermopylae

...article is from ‘Herodotus: the text of Canon Rawlinson’s translation’, published in 1897 by John Murray and held at the British Library, London. We have to deduce the Greeks’ understanding of ‘place’ from their texts, and know that in many cases the geography has changed considerably. Some of the change has natural causes (eg earthquakes, volcanic eruptions...
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Activity 5 mins
Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...article in the tabloid newspaper The Sun. It became clear afterwards that he had been forced to do so by threats to ‘out’ him if he would not publicly acknowledge his sexuality himself. The media in the 1990s represented him in highly problematic ways, however this was also a period of collective action as some groups were able to put pressure on the media to drop...
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Video 3 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, which sets out the rights of member nations to leave the EU and spells out the procedure for doing so within a two-year timetable. Following the referendum Parliament held a series of votes around the decision to trigger Article 50, which are explained in the following video by Richard Heffernan. Watch the video and think about how the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...et al., 2020). Activity 2 Now watch the video ‘Nobody Stands Nowhere’ and consider the implications of what it might mean to make this approach central to Religious Education in schools. [MUSIC PLAYING] NARRATOR What is your view of the world? How do you see things? What makes you who you are? On what do you base your decisions? Why did you react like that? Do you...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs