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An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...world and have an appreciation of where they're coming from, what they're seeking to achieve. And you need to have that ability to have a dialogue with them. IAN HESKETH We seem to go out on a limb at times. So in terms of collaborative working, very often people level an accusation that we don't understand how policing works. They seem to work almost in a silo. So in...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...world. However, you will have to create an account, or pay a subscription to make full use of sites like this, which might not be practical for you. If you find the researcher on the database but the paper you want isn’t there, use the database’s facilities to contact the researcher. Again, tell them why you want to read the article. Collections Universities and...
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Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...world community at the 1990 World Conference on Education for All to ensure that right for all regardless of individual differences. (UNESCO, 1994, p. vii) Later, in the section ‘Guidelines for Action at the National Level’, the Statement acknowledged that ‘most of the required changes do not relate exclusively to children with special educational needs’ (p. 21);...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...World Health Organization to make global comparisons about levels of over- and under-nutrition for people in different countries (Webb, 2008). The table below shows how different BMI scores relate to weight classifications, and you will see that the distinction between ‘overweight’ and ‘obese’ is actually a very precise difference in the BMI. ‘Overweight’ is...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...world? [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER: It's often said that justice is blind. But what exactly is justice? We've all seen the image of the goddess Themis with her blindfold and scales symbolizing the ancient Greeks' idealized view of justice. And it was the Greeks who developed the first concepts of justice, with Aristotle distinguishing between distributive and corrective...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...world, and in keeping with good software engineering practice, the first stage of implementation would involve matching the design requirements with the best available implementing tools and then using those tools for the implementation. In database terms, this might involve choosing vendor products whose DBMS and SQL variants are most suited to the database we need to...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...world? Is there anything that people in business can genuinely learn from philosophy? Alex: Well I know from experience that they can. What a business person can learn from a philosopher is the need to be able to explain and justify what it is that their particular corporation is doing. What are their motives? There’s a lot of confusion, I think. There’s a lot of...
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Diary of a Mars operations day
Science, Maths & Technology

Diary of a Mars operations day

...world out there – and covering the first tips of the snowdrops that were brave enough to come above ground a few days ago. But before I can get too romantic about it all, I’d better start thinking about my workday. It’s Monday after all. I remember that I have a few meetings first thing today. The day starts with some admin and a meeting to talk about all the things...
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