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Open education
Education & Development

Open education

...leadership. You’re not gonna get a sense of someone’s expertise on that day-to-day sort of understand what it’s like to be a guy in a lab researching wonderful new things, by taking a course in this way, in a massive way. There are ways in which direct, day-to-day communication with someone who really knows what they’re doing, and understanding what it means to...
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Level 3: Advanced 40 hrs
Applying social work law to asylum and immigration
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law to asylum and immigration

...leadership is needed at a higher level: ...to respond more effectively in this complex area of work, interventions at a practitioner, organisational and societal level are required if the espoused values of social work are to be more than mere rhetoric. (Chantler, 2012, p. 331) The dispersal policy, whereby asylum seekers and refugees are offered a no-choice, one offer of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...Leadership skills Try to do too much at once Find uncertainty quite difficult to manage Can be too single-minded OPPORTUNITIES THREATS Good position at work Commitment to further study Support from work for further training Supportive family Balancing work and home Uncertain commercial market, especially in IT What are the priorities? Now you need to do your own analysis...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding antibiotic resistance

...leadership and surveillance (ATLAS) (Pfizer, 2017). E. coli bacteria were isolated from infections and tested to determine whether they produced ESBLs and whether they were resistant to cephalosporins. Figure 6 shows the percentage of ESBL- and non-ESBL-producing E. coli isolates that were resistant to the cephalosporin cefepime between 2004 and 2016. Note that this...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view
Society, Politics & Law

Economics and the 2008 crisis: a Keynesian view

...leadership. NARRATOR This film has shown that, despite their very different economic contexts, there are some striking similarities in the way the strongest Italian and German firms compete on the global market. FERNANDO ALBERTI We notice that those companies that are much more performing compared to others, they have the same kind of patterns. So first of all, they [are]...
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Level 2: Intermediate 28 hrs
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Education & Development

Looking globally: the future of education

...leadership in an increasingly secular, internationalised, technology-driven fast changing world? [Credits:] Centre for Research, Innovation & Future Development. Produced by Alex Browning. Thanks to Scenario Planning Team. The changes seem dramatic, but are they more dramatic than the changes we have seen in the previous ten years? Think about: What will be the main...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...leadership – adequate; teamwork – okay; information technology skills – okay; but, understanding of the nature of globalisation, working with cross-cultural sensitivity and sensitivity to different ethical positions were not okay. It seems there is recognition of the need for individuals with many of the skills I have attributed to the aware systems practitioner....
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment
Society, Politics & Law

Pluralism in Economics: inequalities, innovation, environment

...leadership, where a firm with market power sets a price level that other firms follow. Other firms have used tacit collusion in different ways, for example using an intermediary to set pricing, or to share price intentions with others. Activity 4: A cartel game Timing: 5 minutes This activity models cartel behaviour using a technique from mainstream economics called game...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs