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Understanding autism Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...world around them. Autism is much more common than was previously thought. About one per cent (or one in a hundred) of people in the UK are thought to be on the autism spectrum. You may know someone with autism, or be on the autism spectrum yourself. The exact causes are still unknown, but there is good evidence that subtly atypical brain function may lie behind the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...world – whose responsibility it is, the challenges involved in creating and maintaining it, and the benefits it brings to your organisation...How is your workforce doing? What impact did the post-COVID-19 ‘pivot to online’ and the processes and practices that have followed have on staff wellbeing? This course will explore what workplace wellbeing means in a hybrid...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Exploring anxiety
Science, Maths & Technology

Exploring anxiety

...World Health Organization, MIND, Rethink Mental Illness, SANE, NAMI, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the Australian Government Department of Health and the Canadian Mental Health Association, all of whom are gratefully acknowledged. Consider the statements that follow, and click to reveal the truth behind them. Mental illness is not a ‘real’ illness....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...world towards them, and towards each other, wasn’t up for their discussion as part of the production of behaviour policy that would apply to the school – we are talking about children’s behaviour not adults’ behaviour – and I would like to have seen that developed. It would have been very interesting to see how children talk about teachers and teachers’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...world politically. Good evidence is very important, obviously. But on its own, it's just not enough, if you want some proper change. And it's not like one thing, politics, is bad, and the other, evidence, is good. No. I came around to seeing the world like our local politicians, you know? These are people who care about their communities. Their views on how to tackle...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...world’s children with high-quality primary and secondary education are numerous and compelling. Education provides economic benefits and improves health. Education is a widely accepted humanitarian obligation and an internationally mandated human right. These claims are neither controversial nor new. (Cohen, Bloom & Malin, 2006 p. v) However, despite such claims,...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations
Education & Development

Why riot? Community, choices, aspirations

...world socially and in the groups they belong to (their social identity); and how they see themselves personally. They also discovered that for most people their social identity and the groups or community they feel they belong to can be particularly important. This is especially the case in contexts of social conflict...Session 1: Community: 1.2 How others see you - It...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Emotion: an introductory picture
History & The Arts

Emotion: an introductory picture

...world actually works, the role of philosophy is to take a step back – to analyse and to criticise the assumptions that underlie our everyday beliefs and our scientific theories. Sometimes it is suggested that the primary concern of philosophy is to understand the concepts that we use in describing and explaining the world: to give an account of our concept emotion is to...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs