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Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...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, delivering education based on equality for all people is neither universal nor historically significant, and it continues to compete with a range of other...
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Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...public art on display, and also regular exhibitions of contemporary art in the academic library. It’s the sort of thing you might see in your local town or city. Here in Milton Keynes, our new gallery opened in 1999. It opened with a large exhibition by Gilbert & George, who as you'll find out just a little later in the course won the Turner prize in 1986 for their...
Introducing relational care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing relational care

...health and housekeeping but rarely with providing relational care (Muller, Armstrong and Lowndes, 2018). Unusually, in this care setting the cleaners’ responsibilities do include personal care in relation to menus and the vignette illustrates how much the interaction and the contact is valued by the resident and Elaine. It gives them both a sense of self-worth. Time...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...publications/ statistical/ hospital-episode-statistics-for-admitted-patient-care-outpatient-and-accident-and-emergency-data/ provisional-monthly-hospital-episode-statistics-for-admitted-patient-care-outpatients-and-accident-and-emergency-data-april-2011-to-february-2012 (Accessed 15 October 2018). Palmer-Green, D. and Elliott, N. (2015) ‘Sports injury and illness...
Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith
Education & Development

Cynorthwywyr addysgu: Cymorth ar waith

...public services to make them more responsive to their ‘clients’ and more cost efficient. There is a belief that established professional attitudes and practices should be challenged and improved, and that professionals should develop increased flexibility in their ways of working. Yn ogystal â'r rhesymau cyffredinol hyn dros gyflogi cynorthwywyr, mae dau brif ffactor...
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...public servant: What can we do to overcome unconscious bias?’, National Institutes of Health. Available at: https://www.edi.nih.gov/blog/opinion/unconscious-bias-and-public-servant-what-can-we-do-overcome-unconscious-bias (Accessed: 9 May 2024). Hofstede, G. (1980) Culture’s consequences: International differences in work-related values. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...public holidays. Christmas Eve – Sviatvechir (literally ‘Holy Evening’) – is the most important family gathering during the year. It is said that if someone is not at home on this evening, he or she will be away from home for a whole year. Ukrainian Christmas traditions have strong pre-Christian roots, as well as Christian interpretations. Ukrainians have a...
Engineering: The nature of problems
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The nature of problems

...health education, but in this programme the workers were explaining how batteries were expensive or unavailable and electricity supplies unreliable or simply non-existent. The programme provided Baylis with a problem, and inspired him to find an innovative solution. Baylis's invention, as you have probably guessed, was the clockwork radio, Figure 2. He wasn't the first...