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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch the following video in which Dr Sue Black OBE introduces the course. Transcript There are case study videos placed throughout the course to show...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
The Life of Saint Patrick
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Patrick

...work on the lives of the saints tells the story of Ireland's patron saint...[Saint Patrick] Saint Patrick On the various accounts of Saint Patrick's life "The Irish have many lives of their great apostle, whereof the two principal are, that compiled by Jocelin, a Cistercian monk, in the twelfth century, who quotes four lives written by disciples of the saint; and that by...
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Article 10 mins
Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Terminal illness and wellbeing: supporting people in the workplace

...work impacts on people’s wellbeing. People often presume and create a separation between their work life and their private life. However, life events like having a terminal diagnosis, which may be considered private, can impact a person’s work. In this article, we provide several tips for supporting people with a terminal illness in the workplace...Once someone has a...
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Article 5 mins
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis" of the IPCC, the United Nations Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. Thomas Stocker has co-authored more than 200 publications; he holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Versailles and has received several awards for his work. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and a Foreign Member of the...
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Audio 5 mins
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...working and living conditions suffered by working-class women, but eventually joined the campaign for women’s suffrage. You will also spend some time with the prominent suffragette May Billinghurst, as well as looking at the ways in which the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) and the First World War...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Trust in the Workplace
Health, Sports & Psychology

Trust in the Workplace

...Work theme in our Applying Psychology to Work hub we have many rescources to help you explore managing trust...The theme of trust at work presents one of the five main priorities in the Applying Psychology to Work hub. Our research highlighted that many organisations were contemplating actions that would potentially impact their employees’ wellbeing, job security and...
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Article 10 mins
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...worked out with a consultancy called EquaTerra, which is now part of KPMG. ‘We asked ourselves what we wanted to achieve,’ says Taylor. ‘What’s the output we want to get to? Then, we worked with EquaTerra on how we would perform the benchmarks, because the issue with benchmarking is that everyone calibrates it in some sort of way. ‘So we said, if we look at the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?
Society, Politics & Law

Is cleaning a route to a better life for migrants?

...work may make the dream of integration harder for new arrivals to achieve...Let me at once introduce you to the main character of this blog post: Kifibin. He is a Ugandan man in his mid-thirties currently working as a cleaner in Finland. His story includes many characteristics typical of migrant cleaners’ trajectories: he began cleaning work while studying on an...
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Article 5 mins