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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...attention? FB: I come from a country at that time about 20% of the population didn’t have access to modern energy sources. It was the main driver for me. But starting from there, the issues of developing countries and energy was important driver. But by that time I had a wider interest in the global energy issues. RH: OK. So you’re now taking over the International...
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...attention lies at least in part in the influential PISA and PIRLS surveys and established international evidence that reading for pleasure—independent choice-led reading—is a strong predictor of reading attainment. In England in the last PIRLS, children who reported liking reading the most, scored, on average, 45-points more than those who reported that they do not...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...attention to the kinds of stories people tell in your organisation about its leaders, past and present. The following questions may help as prompts when you write your thoughts up in your learning journal: What type of leader does your organisation seem to favour? What kind of people tend not to be favoured? What kinds of behaviours and characteristics tend to be...
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...attention to the way the words will be brought to full life on stage; the performance will need to make not just an aural but also a visual appeal. Another important difference between drama and prose fiction, however, lies in the absence (generally speaking) of a narrator. There are exceptions to be found, for instance in the chorus in Henry V and Romeo and Juliet, or,...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...attention among theorists, practitioners and in the media is MOOCs (massive open online courses). MOOCs are designed for unlimited participation and open access via the web, and are built around the principle of sharing knowledge and resources...Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring: 1.5 Training evaluation - The final stage in the standard approach to training...
Exploring Homer’s Odyssey
History & The Arts

Exploring Homer’s Odyssey

...attention throughout the Odyssey – he’s usually to be found either talking about himself or being talked about by someone else – and this in itself very much encourages the audience to think of him as the poem’s hero. You’ll focus a bit more closely on his wife Penelope too, however, and ask whether we might find in her a different kind of hero. In the next...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...attention, care and protection of more mature individuals to enable them to grow and develop. By definition, newborn mammals need access to nutrition via suckling. As well as the need for food, there is also a need for security in terms of the protection that a more autonomous member of the same species can give – for example, against predators which find defenceless...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...attention that illuminates key sensory information in the brain, which then enters into conscious awareness. This is the mind’s spotlight on the outside world, with awareness at its focus and the degree of wakefulness tuning its intensity. Steven Laureys, who leads the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège in Belgium, is one of those seeking the source of this...