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Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?
Nature & Environment

Is Donald Trump ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon?

...management that they place in doubt the safety culture of the entire industry.” The root causes for these mistakes included regulatory failures. Now, however, the Trump administration wants to increase domestic production by “reducing the regulatory burden on industry.” In my view, such a shift will put workers and the environment at risk, and ignores the painful...
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Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont
Society, Politics & Law

Life as a Railway Worker: An Oral History Testimony by Nan Zaimaitas nee Lamont

...management inspectors towards the cleaners. I watched grown men crumble, reduced to tears as they were threatened with dismissal and told to repeat chores for no reason. The inspectors tried it with me, on one occasion calling me back into a train coach to mop a floor I had already done. I asked to be shown the problem but the inspector shouted at me to just do it. I...
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Medicines and personalisation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Medicines and personalisation

...manage symptoms associated with ageing (e.g. overactive bladder) which can actually worsen cognitive function. Older people can also struggle to regulate their body temperature, so drugs that act on the brain can lead to unusually low body temperature even in the summer. The difficulty with identifying ADRs in older people is that they are often vague and non-specific....
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Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief during COVID-19: supporting our colleagues to return to work and thrive following loss

...managers who play a significant part in influencing a grieving employee’s experience of their workplace. The most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues struggle with what to say and how to behave when someone returns to work.Yet even the most senior personnel can feel deskilled in situations of bereavement, and colleagues...
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Strategic planning for online learning
Education & Development

Strategic planning for online learning

...management of online learning at Trust, school, subject or phase level, this free course is built upon extensive research into how school leaders strategically manage and plan for online provision of learning. It addresses how schools manage particular challenges and opportunities which online learning provides. During the course you will consider real challenges via case...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Using data to aid organisational change
Money & Business

Using data to aid organisational change

...management issue you want to address, such as why the career progression of women in the construction industry is slower than men’s in the same industry. Alternatively, your sponsoring organisation might like you to carry out a specific project that will benefit the organisation itself. For example, it might need a specific customer service policy to be developed. You...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...manage this? The reason that it's good that lots of people can step up to leadership is, if not, then it comes down to one person. And firstly, that one person only has one set of views and it's really important that you get lots of views into an organisation, not just that one person. So I think we all have to acknowledge that sometimes, we have biases or we have things...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...manages revenue collection. The system is designed to cope with up to ‘250,000 vehicles [making] 450,000 movements into the charging zone during the period 7 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. with 40,000 vehicles an hour driving into the congestion charging zone during the morning peak (7 a.m.–10 a.m.)’ (Transport for London, 2005). This complex system combining a number of...
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Level 3: Advanced 25 hrs