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Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class
Society, Politics & Law

Review: Chavs - The Demonization of the Working Class

...Working Class and asks how the image of the bulldog breed turned into a narrative of feral children...Owen Jones has taken on a big job documenting the way most of the citizens of these islands are commonly portrayed. It’s a task long overdue given the changes that have turned "the salt of the earth" into the target of routine abuse by The Sun and Daily Mail, the...
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Article 10 mins
Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration
Digital & Computing

Hybrid working: digital communication and collaboration

...Social media and social networks Outside our work context, many of us use social media or networks to connect and share information about ourselves. It can be useful to understand the difference between social media and networking, as, to some extent, the terms are used and understood interchangeably. Here are a couple of definitions: ‘Social media ......
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...work relationships, introduces the concept of trust, what it means to you and how it may affect your organisation...Learn about trust in the organisational context. This free course, Developing high trust work relationships, introduces the concept of trust, what it means to you and how it may affect your organisation....Developing high trust work relationships:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
What makes people happy at work?
Money & Business

What makes people happy at work?

...work contract between capital and labour has been at the centre of economics since it developed as a social science 150 years ago. Now we're watching economists broaden the nature of what that contract is, recognising how people feel about their work, how they relate to it as a dimension that's pretty important in any calculation about productivity. I think that...
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Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...work with young people in these years included work done by the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU)...Partnerships and networks in work with young people: 2.2 Young people and social exclusion - [A photograph of a group of four teenagers, sitting on a wall at the side of a street.] Figure 3 The creation of the SEU was particularly significant in the development of partnership...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...working relationships are a complex set of social skills and behaviours (e.g. Bowes and Jones, 2006). However, here in this course, it is broken down into parts – thereby making it easier to study – and you will revisit this video in Session 2 to make further sense of it. Right now, at the beginning of this course, you should consider to what extent you use small talk...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Early years team work and leadership
Education & Development

Early years team work and leadership

...worked for Social Services. I was providing respite care for foster carers, looking after their children at the weekends to give them a break. Had varying needs of the children I was looking after, one little girl had meningitis which left her severely brain damaged, cerebral palsy, and many other health-related problems, and I looked after those to give the foster carers...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...social trends in the UK...Session 4: your work: present and future: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Ayesha Peeran, Martin Upton and Jitka Vseteckova in collaboration with Legal & General. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs