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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...et al., quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). Followership can be defined as a process in which subordinates recognise their responsibility to comply with the orders of leaders and take appropriate action consistent with the situation to carry out those orders to the best of their ability (Townsend and Gebhart, quoted in Crossman and Crossman, 2011). These definitions...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Assessment in secondary music
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary music

...et al. (2003) identify four main ways in which assessment for learning can be promoted: through questioning through feedback through sharing criteria through self and peer assessment. You will explore each of these in turn and then briefly examine the importance of talking with young people about their assessment and their music-making...Assessment in secondary music: 3.1...
The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster
Nature & Environment

The struggle to save the seabirds after the Torrey Canyon disaster

...et al 1967). Divers are also frequent victims and among wildfowl, eiders Somateria spp., scoters Melanitta spp. and the Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemaIis have suffered losses in tens of thousands in some incidents (McCallum 1964; Harrison 1967). In March 1968, 1,300 Common Eiders and scoters were found oiled in the Firth of Tay in Scotland (J. J. D. Greenwood, pers....
School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...et al (2000) ‘Bursars’ expected roles: an overview’, From Bursar to School Business Manager, Pearson Education Ltd. DfES, (2004) Looking for a Bursar. Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller if HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland (Various extracts) Davies, B. and Ellison, L. (1999)...
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Education & Development

Ewch â’ch addysgu ar-lein

...et al. (2008) fod yr un faint o wahaniaeth o fewn defnydd o dechnoleg gan y cenedlaethau iau, yr ystyriwyd eu bod yn ‘frodorion digidol’, ag yr oedd rhyngddynt hwy â’r cenedlaethau hŷn o ‘fewnfudwyr digidol’. Yr hyn sy’n bwysig yw bod sgiliau technoleg y brodorion digidol yn aml yn gyfyngedig. Felly, mae’n ymddangos na ddylem dybio bod rhywun yn hyderus...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Developing career resilience

...et al. (2012, p. 3) accept that wellbeing and resilience are linked, but they also ask whether wellbeing and resilience are ‘two sides of the same coin or is it possible to be resilient but have low levels of wellbeing?’ They go on to explain the difference between the two concepts as follows: Wellbeing describes and captures a psychological state at a point in time....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...et al. (2019) show just how prevalent the idea of the leader as person is in the narratives of UK policy documents and academic writing about the sector. There is a good reason for this, as it is often people with great belief, talent and drive who establish successful voluntary organisations in the first place. Another reason why people are bewitched by leaders is that...
The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide
Health, Sports & Psychology

The football World Cup: where sport and politics collide

...et al., 2016), and can be explained by the use of a lower case and capital letter: Small ‘p’ politics refers to any form of social organisation where matters are concerned with getting or using power within a particular group e.g., there is plenty of ‘office’ politics within, and often between, sports organisations. Big ‘P’ Politics often focuses on...