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Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...social group. The following activites will help you to focus on societal culture more closely. Activity 1 Timing: Allow up to 30 minutes Watch the film clip below, which is commenting on aspects of education in Singapore. As you watch, make notes on what it says about the societal culture in Singapore. You need to be aware that the narration on all the video clips has a...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...work. That's over now. That's a period of our development where we've got these big monotheistic religions. Now we find there's no room left. We're all on the same planet. But that's not to diss it because it's OK to have a framework and a story because that's all I've got, a framework and a story within which we can live. And we need that. And we need these meta stories....
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...work out an average or area, and how to read a graph. We'll also show you why you don't need to understand fractions, and warn you about the percent button on calculators. OK, here we go. In week one, you learn about some basic concepts for numbers, including the way scientists write very big or very small numbers. You'll also cover units of measurement, like kilogrammes,...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Do people really behave in a rational way?
Money & Business

Do people really behave in a rational way?

...worked, our results appear to go against psychologists' findings about incidental emotions and instead endorse rational choice. Why? It might be because people were being asked to make choices over a public good where many people would benefit. Emotions may have a different effect on our choices over public goods than private goods. Or it could be because our participants...
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Article 5 mins
The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...works with the person’s definition of the situation, as well as that presented through a medical or other diagnosis’. There are a number of different frameworks that have been developed by nurse academics to help practising nurses implement person-centred care. While these frameworks are all slightly different, they all share some key components: knowing the patient...
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Article 5 mins
"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school
Languages

"That's so gay!" Homophobic language and school

...works. Write down the ideas he suggests. Is this something that could be done in your school? Who can you talk to (management, peers) to get things started? It goes beyond homophobia The word 'gay' has many meanings. Many of those meanings are positive. Don’t ban the word 'gay' from your school. Teach children how to use it well. Involve the children. In this final...
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Video 15 mins
Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?
Science, Maths & Technology

Genomic “dark matter”: a key to understand cancer biology?

...work using other molecules called enzymes, factors and cofactors, all of which are proteins with specific functions. Therefore, the classical definition of “gene” refers to DNA sequences, which are transcribed into RNA (mRNA) and then translated into proteins. We know today that some RNAs cannot produce proteins and it has been supposed for many years that they could...
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Article 10 mins
Can we design places to combat loneliness?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we design places to combat loneliness?

...work? Looking at peer reviewed research published in English, the team reviewed a large number of potentially relevant studies (over 7000!). They identified 57 studies which had directly looked at the relationship between the built environment and loneliness. The small number of studies internationally demonstrates that this is an area which needs more research. The...
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Article 5 mins