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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...account of today's context understand how a business manager can support teaching and learning and all stakeholders understand and use a range of analytical tools apply these analytical tools to your school's situation, in particular responding to government agendas understand how benchmarking data can be used to compare and contrast expenditure and resource...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...accountancy and legal services). In these contexts, the specific service being provided is normally discussed and agreed between client and provider. While the client has more influence over the specification of the product or service being provided, the service provider – the marketer in this context – is often in a position to advise the client as to what his or her...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
An introduction to social work law
Society, Politics & Law

An introduction to social work law

...accountability, really, because obviously, we have to stand by those decisions that we make at that time. NARRATOR: After a handover from the colleague she's relieving, Sam's work starts. [PHONE RINGING] Almost immediately, the phone calls begin. SAM SWAN: That's custody. OK, appropriate adult, OK. NARRATOR: A 16-year-old is being held at Telford's main police station,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping in rugby union: a case of papering over the cracks?

...accounting for the importance of size, strength and power it is perhaps slightly less surprising that the majority of doping bans are issued to those players attempting to gain entry to the elite levels of the game. The pressures faced by young people aspiring to ‘make it’ to the pinnacle of the sport – including the need for players to become bigger and stronger...
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Article 5 mins
Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place
History & The Arts

Keeping the spark of the 60s alive: Neil Young and a sense of place

...account of a personal road-trip taken by the Canadian author Kevin Chong, as documented in his 2005 book Neil Young Nation. Commenting on the Halliwell’s new book, Chong said: "In a half-century of music, Young has offered wistful glimpses of the North American landscape. In one moment, he will nostalgically invoke his Canadian past in a piano ballad and, in another,...
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Article 5 mins
Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...accountability when war crimes and Human Rights violations are investigated. These images of the everyday realities of war can engage us emotionally in ways that news images do not. But equally, when recordings of war crimes or abuse or torture in the smartphones of Syrian refugees get into the hands of hostile forces, they can mean danger and even death. Similarly, maps...
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Video 5 mins
The Death of Socrates
History & The Arts

The Death of Socrates

...account of the trial in his Apology would seem to confirm this). The last days of Socrates are chronicled in Plato's Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo, the last dialogue depicting the day of his death (by drinking hemlock) surrounded by his friends in his jail cell in Athens and, as Plato puts it, "Such was the end of our friend, a man, I think, who was the wisest and...
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Article 5 mins
How does nature tell the time?
Nature & Environment

How does nature tell the time?

...account of the events. A wide ring means that it was a happy tree, with plenty of water and sunshine. A narrow ring means that it was under a lot of stress, either from high winds or a very dry summer. If the environment and conditions affected the trees that much, just think what it would have done to the human population! But a living tree can only go back so far. To go...
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Article 10 mins