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Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...leadership: Part 1: Think again’, Nursery World Select, 2022(1), pp. 44–5. Pemberton, L. (2022b) ‘Anti-racist leadership: Part 2: Looking inward’, Nursery World Select, 2022(2), pp.44–5. Pemberton, L. (2022c) ‘Anti-racist leadership: Part 3: What we say’, Nursery World Select, 2022(3). Pemberton, L. (2022d) ‘Anti-racist leadership: Part 4: Do I belong?’,...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...Leadership 50 Leading Lights, sponsored by University of Oxford and Financial Times. Video 3 Patricia Covarrubia...Week 4: Experiencing dyslexia: 2.3 Living or working with someone that has dyslexia - Week 3 examined the biological aspect of dyslexia and its genetic heritability. Patricia’s story doesn’t end with her, as one of her daughters inherited the condition....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...leadership, and is largely, although not always, tolerated. The vice-chair of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences, Yang Zhaofei, estimates that the number of environmental protests has increased by an average of 29% every year since 1996, while in 2011 the number of major environmental protests more than doubled compared with 2010 (Jianqiang, 2013). Some people...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...leadership, and it’s [an] ongoing discussion. It’s ongoing, looking at situations where are we actually doing what we’re saying, is that in a room or out on the field, it’s so important to be almost like a mirror. So we have decided this, are you acting like we decided? Jane Garvey Presumably there’s always going to be a certain amount of conflict within teams...
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Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...leadership. This session, members will be asked to make some difficult decisions. But the words of our previous and now sadly departed Scotts Makar Edwin Morgan should provide us with some guidance. When this building opened for business in 2004, he reminded us of the hopes and the aspirations of the Scottish people for their Parliament. And he warned us, "A nest of...
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...leadership, culture and structure are usually treated as neutral, inevitable, or objective, and hence unproblematic. The separation of formulation from implementation, downplaying the importance of the relationship between formal and informal systems of control and assumptions about the compatibility of organisational and individual/group goals is likely to encourage...
Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...leadership organisations. Because people at the top of the chain, people like you, I think, are starting to realise that there's too much speed in the system, there's too much busyness, and it's time to find, or get back to that lost art of shifting gears. Another encouraging sign, I think, is that it's not just in the developed world that this idea's been taken up. In...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...leadership role. Adopt a systematic and holistic approach to risk identification, assessment and management. Comply with legislation and codes, but be prepared to seek further improvements. Ensure good communication with the others involved. Ensure that lasting systems for oversight and scrutiny are in place. Contribute to public awareness of risk. (Engineering Council,...