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QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations
Health, Sports & Psychology

QATAR 2022 must impart a positive coaching legacy for Africa and the Caribbean member associations

...mental health of the population which also coincides with social cohesion and job creation. Yet, more importantly organisations must adopt standards of good governance. Coincidentally one of the key recommendations from the ASCI report is train and inform: make the most of the human capital. We hope that the associations start to invest more in their coaches and their...
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...mental methods - Being able to calculate mentally helps learners to develop a secure understanding of numbers and the number system, allows learners to develop their own intuitive methods and provides a firm foundation for written methods of calculation. The practice of doing mental calculations is an important skill in everyday life. It also helps to develop fluency and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...mental abilities. Minds – Here, we'll explore the development of the idea that human thought might be a form of computation, from its origins in the 17th century, through the advent of the digital computer in the 20th, and into the Cybernetics and Symbolic AI movements of the recent past and the present. AI – In this section we'll examine the birth and intellectual...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...mental health service users. He is interested in how the group can work better with formal services to ensure the best healthcare for people with mental health problems. Joel needs to be skillful in understanding the structures of formal services and the roles of professionals, as well as being able to engage with a range of people at a range of levels. Skill is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...for people. So we're just evolving to respond to that. The impact of the pandemic on mental health, inequalities for certain groups in society, the economy and infrastructure are key areas organisations now need to focus on, alongside sustainability and how they can contribute to targets linked to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) (UN, 2022) and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. ......
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

The athlete’s journey: transitions through sport

...mental health challenges. This echoes the stories of the professional athletes that you heard from in Activity 1 and further illustrates how athletes of all levels can experience challenges navigating transitions in sport. You will look at the importance of support in more detail in Section 5. While level of participation may not be a clear factor when it comes to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...mentally impaired by the gas, but overstimulated beyond the reach of words themselves: as Davy himself put it, ‘I have sometimes experienced from nitrous oxide, sensations similar to no others, and they have consequently been indescribable’. James Thompson, one of the volunteers, captured the magnitude of the task precisely: ‘We must either invent new terms to...
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How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...mental vision, —I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the...
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