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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...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention
Money & Business

Global challenges in practice: designing a development intervention

...et al., 2008 p. 203) The Ladder: Change is achieved by allowing people to resolve immediate needs and gradually accumulate resources and voice. Enlightened Elites: Change is achieved by shifting the hearts and minds of people in power, either through self-interest or threat, leading them to make institutions and policies more responsive. People in the Streets: Change is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...et al., 2020). It is also the case that beginner teachers may be called by various terms, including: student-teacher; trainee teacher; early career teacher or beginning teacher (Hobson and Malderez, 2013). To aid in understanding how coaching differs from mentoring, this course will draw on the research of Lofthouse et al. (2010) on developing coaching among teachers....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...et al., 1992). Medical journals were founded in rather smaller numbers in Europe at the same time – in France, Germany and Belgium, where the Scalpel (surely in homage to Wakley's Lancet) appeared. Even in Russia, twenty-three new journals were established around the middle of the century. Nineteenth-century medicine had a form and character that was unique to its time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...et al., 2010, p. 42). Alternatively, the marriage might be the result of other people’s decisions, in the same way that partnerships might be the result of decisions made outside organisations; for example, because of government edict. Partners may be obliged to participate with other partners who have very different values, priorities and ways of working. We hope that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Successful IT systems
Digital & Computing

Successful IT systems

...et al., 2011) across Australia, Canada and the UK found a broader range of criteria being used when 50 respondents in each of the three countries were asked to provide and to rank in order of importance the success criteria they had used to make a judgement about the success of a project they had recently worked on. In Table 2 you can see the success criteria they...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...et al., 1999, p. 121). It is further claimed that sixteen children commit suicide in the UK each year as a result of bullying (Marr and Field, 2001). Yet it is only fairly recently that bullying has been recognized as a serious problem and seen as a form of violence against children. There has been a tendency among adults to see it as playing or teasing which occasionally...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Understanding your customers
Money & Business

Understanding your customers

...et al. (2017) argue that customer experience management (CEM) is the most relevant way of pursuing long-term customer loyalty, and thus ensuring the long-term success of an organisation. CEM takes a very broad view of ‘satisfying customer requirements’ (CIM, 2015). It emphasises that a customer’s relationship with an organisation often begins well in advance of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs