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Making creativity and innovation happen
Money & Business

Making creativity and innovation happen

...System 1 and System 2 thinking: System 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little or no effort and no sense of voluntary control System 2 allocates attention to the effortful mental activities that demand it, including complex computations (Kahneman, 2011, pp.20–21) Figure 4 Daniel Kahneman System 1, in other words, is your intuition at work.......
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
My career goal: digital
Science, Maths & Technology

My career goal: digital

...systems critically and effectively. The range of free courses below give you some grounding knowledge in these areas. Development and coding Computing code is the building blocks of software systems and websites. There is an increasing demand for workers skilled in this area to design and develop software systems. The free courses below look at some of these finer skills....
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Article 20 mins
This is not a city: Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

This is not a city: Milton Keynes

...Think of Edinburgh and cultural events such as the Fringe, or think of London and its stock markets. Being a city is to be elevated to a greater level of national significance. Throughout much of history, the city has been considered a space where the citizens were free from the back-breaking labour that defined rural life. According to geographer Yi Fu Tuan, the...
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Article 15 mins
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...system that replaced exams with TAG in 2021 did not work for EHE private candidates. Quite simply, they had no history with teachers marking their work as students learnt independently using books, their own research, YouTube, past papers and family or friends to support their learning. Teaching myself When we think of young people taking exams we usually think of them...
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Article 5 mins
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...system. Find out what Kenechi, 13, and Loren, 18 think about race. Follow the UK youth instagram page. Click here to watch a video about the essentials of youth policy. Find out more about the eight standards for a quality youth policy here. Find out more about intersectionality from the Open University’s Professor Ann Pheonix. Find out more about how the Prevent...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
How you can be more secure than the President
Digital & Computing

How you can be more secure than the President

...systems have made updating relatively simple. If you want to ensure your machine is being kept up-to-date, here’s how to do it on some of the most common: Microsoft Windows 10 By default, Windows 10 performs regular checks for updates from Microsoft. The update is then automatically downloaded and installed on your computer. Windows will warn you if it needs to restart...
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Article 5 mins
Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes
Society, Politics & Law

Smart Cities in the Making: Learning from Milton Keynes

...think it's important, and why we think different people will benefit from the research findings that we're going to be coming up with. But before I go any further, let me introduce the whole research team to you. There are eight of us in all. We're a mix of geographers, sociologists, planners, designers. And we think that interdisciplinary mix is actually quite important...
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Video 10 mins
Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators
Society, Politics & Law

Reflective practice as self-care: recognising the mental health needs of sexual offence investigators

...System (ANS) is key to our physical and psychological health and is responsible for our body’s involuntary and essential activities such responses to stress and threat (Ziegler, 2012; Glick et al., 2016). The ANS consists of two sub-systems that are considered to work opposite to each other: the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and the Parasympathetic Nervous System...
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Article 5 mins