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Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice
Nature & Environment

Paul Tucker On Using Systems Thinking In Practice

...Manager at Northampton Partnership Homes. Paul gained his OU degree course in Environmental Management and Technology, qualifiying with first class honours in 2019. He started postgraduate study towards a Masters in Systems Thinking in Practice in 2020 and completed the first module, Managing change with STiP (TB872) and enrolled in a second module, T891, Making...
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Contemporary Issues in Finance
Money & Business

Contemporary Issues in Finance

...management. Representatives from Boots, De La Rue and ABN Amro offer insights into the various issues surrounding risk – what kinds of risk their companies are concerned with; how those risks are managed; their companies' differing attitudes to those risks. The album also explores developments in single currency, pension scheme deficits and corporate governance and...
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Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...Manager at Dyfed-Powys Police before joining The Open University in Wales, during which time she also qualified in the subject. Kerrie was then keen to use her skills to support governance at her children’s school. Continue reading Kerrie’s overriding interest in becoming a governor, though, wasn’t a professional one; it was about supporting the environment where...
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What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What are South Asian young adult carers’ aspirations for the future?

...managing the family’s finances. Thinking ahead: planning for the future Each young person, whatever their background, has their own vision for what their future may bring. They might identify a role model in their family, someone whose accomplishments they have read about, or want to emulate a well-known figure they have heard about on social media. Alternatively, they...
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Beachbrains
Science, Maths & Technology

Beachbrains

...project of Intelligence Realm Inc. intends to create – at least a small – thinking beach. Based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) – the same technology as the basis of the much better known SETI1 project – the aim of the Artificial Intelligence System is to simulate the human brain, in real time. If their current experiments pay...
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Guide to studying through medium of Welsh at university
Education & Development

Guide to studying through medium of Welsh at university

...project and website for students. The resources have been created in partnership with Bangor University, Aberystwyth University, University of Wales Trinity Saint David and Grŵp Llandrillo Menai. Explore the guide: Starting at university [university ready - white back ] This resource is part of the University Ready hub. Find more resources like this on the hub homepage....
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Soil could save Earth from overheating
Nature & Environment

Soil could save Earth from overheating

...manage soils so they store carbon rather than lose it would help avoid dangerous climate change...[Man holds a handful of soil in a field with a spade behind him. ] Climate scientists anxious to find ways to limit atmospheric greenhouse gases have started to look at the ground beneath their feet. They calculate that although the world’s soils already hold 2.4 trillion...
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Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...project...This is the fourth of four courses which comprise the course Learning to teach. Undertaking classroom research is seen as an effective form of CPD. This free course, An introduction to classroom research, provides a basic introduction to research design and illustrates two methodologies, case study and action research, by drawing on examples from the classroom....
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs