2,336 search results
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...family and employers, and on social media. Badges are a great motivation, helping you to reach the end of the course. Gaining a badge often boosts confidence in the skills and abilities that underpin successful study. So, completing this course could encourage you to think about taking other courses...Introduction and guidance: How to get a badge - Getting a badge is...
View course Exploring sport coaching and psychology
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...family, your community or society? What are the roles of different types of organisation within the voluntary sector? The concept of role is key to understanding organisations. Many of the topics covered in this course are issues or activities that are relevant to other areas of life beyond a job or formal volunteering. You may have attended a public meeting and asked a...
View course Working in the voluntary sector
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Science, Maths & Technology

Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere

...history of our changing perceptions of the icy satellites, examines the available evidence for their internal structures, and considers the niches offered for life to begin and to be sustained. In this context, the 'habitable zone' embraces settings devoid of both sunlight and an atmosphere. These are areas where life could survive on the energy from chemical reactions...
View course Icy bodies: Europa and elsewhere
Level 2: Intermediate 17 hrs
Women transforming classical music
History & The Arts

Women transforming classical music

...history and many music students received a training which meant they never played, studied, or sometimes even heard a single piece of music by a woman as part of their musical education. Absence is a powerful teaching tool. The absence of women composers from the canon and musical education has caused the ongoing absence of women from the performing repertoire today....
View course Women transforming classical music
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...family was Jewish and her mother’s was Catholic, but she was brought up an atheist. In 1919 the family moved to Turin, where the Levi household became a meeting place for many intellectuals who opposed Mussolini. Natalia studied at the University of Turin. In 1938 she married the political activist Leone Ginzburg. The Ginzburgs spent some years in Abruzzo, where Leone...
View course Intermediate Italian: describing people
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...families sharing spaces so cramped people had to work on beds to complete their tasks. The pandemic served to ‘Lift the veil of ignorance’ (philosopher John Rawls, 1970, quoted in Gratton, 2022, p. 6) as leaders faced similar difficulties to their employees; this brought about a much deeper empathy very quickly, something that had, up to this point, been difficult to...
View course Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Exploring the English language
History & The Arts

Exploring the English language

...history of the English language and social and political processes understand methods of enquiry into English language, viewed diachronically and synchronically with awareness of the limitations of any one approach deploy skills in handling information relating to quantification in various aspects including time in relation to the courses historical aspect and very simple...
View course Exploring the English language
Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...history not a noble tradition an ignoble tradition perhaps but go back to Renaissance portraits and you know where the prince or the king is portrayed as slim and having an enormous codpiece when for all we know the reality was other. Later on George the fourth. I was looking the other day at a portrait in which he was portly but in fact he was apparently massively and...
View video Lying and politics: a brief primer
Video 5 mins