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Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...families, there is a need to develop a bank of illustrative narratives. She will need skills associated with interviewing, helping the patients to tell their stories in a clear and coherent way. She may need to edit the audio tapes to enable the patient journey to be understood. But patients will have to develop their storytelling abilities, too. They have been used to...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...familial assistance to poor and vulnerable inner city children and young people. The organisation offered a mix of orthodox and unorthodox approaches to support: counselling, friendship, some (tailored) financial support and even massage therapy. The charity’s core offering was a drop-in centre model and by the time of its closure it had opened four such centres in...
Understanding science: what we cannot know Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding science: what we cannot know

...history, dating back centuries across many different cultures. However, it is only in more recent times that games of chance have been analysed mathematically, with some very interesting and powerful mathematics developing as a result, in the area now known as probability theory. The correspondence between two 17th century French mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre...
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...family...Design: 1.1 Design - Design is everywhere. Look around you, and consider the objects you see. For example, in my office I can see my computer, a telephone, a pen, a coffee mug, my sunglasses, a stapler, my wallet, my diary, a one pound coin, a postcard, carpet tiles, a desk, a chair, window blinds, a jacket, a radiator, a strip light, and much more besides. All...
Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...history. And we’ve done that knowingly. And so it’s absolutely right that governments must be held to account on how they are delivering against meeting their climate targets now. It’s also really important that we’re getting alongside some of our public institutions, helping them to collaborate with each other, finding connections to people to organisations who...
Evolution through natural selection
Nature & Environment

Evolution through natural selection

...history; thus, we could describe the evolution of the motor car or of parliamentary democracy. Biological evolution refers to the fact that the many organisms that inhabit the Earth today are different from those that existed in the past. The processes that have brought about changes among living organisms are many and varied and one of them, but only one of them, is...
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...history of the Gran Caffè in Italy goes back to the introduction of coffee into Europe in the early seventeenth century. The first European coffee houses were established in Venice, a centre of trade between Italy and the East. The coffee houses were a meeting place for intellectuals and artists, and often became cultural landmarks. A few famous examples are the Gran...
The problem with crime
Society, Politics & Law

The problem with crime

...history. As the 1920s persisted the image of Glasgow became steadily worse. The new horror story was gang warfare. A combination of heavy policing and heavier sentencing broke the back of these fighting gangs by the start of the 1930s. But then, in 1936 came the event which totally damned Glasgow. And that was the publication of the novel "No Mean City". Listen to this....
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr