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Unlikely Leaders
Money & Business

Unlikely Leaders

...children, and strong families in the remote areas of the Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa (KPK) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of North West Pakistan Kor (www.khwendokor.org.pk). The UK Friends of Khwendo Kor Kor (www.frok.org.uk) was established in 2002 to help Khwendo Kor's fundraising efforts. Its aim is to raise sufficient money to give Khwendo Kor long-term...
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Video 58 mins
Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences
Society, Politics & Law

Straight talking collides with cyclical preferences

...Centre. But if confronted with the binary choices, I prefer Wright over Centre and Centre over Lefte. Or, when choosing an exhibition match opponent for my snooker playing cousin, I may prefer Joe Perry (a middle-ranking professional) over the unknown Harry Cueless (because beating Perry is possible on a bad day and would be much more impressive), and Harry Cueless over...
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Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...children’s centres and local support services. Early years practitioners need leadership skills for a host of purposes, including: leading the curriculum decision-making working with parents and carers developing policies working with other professionals or agencies working with governors dealing with conflict organising the school and learning environment...4 Teamwork...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...research methods. You will learn about these methods in this free course, starting in the next section where you will begin to explore how quantitative evidence is used to understand what obesity is and how it is linked to unhealthy lifestyles, before moving on to qualitative approaches later on...Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?: 2 Quantitative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Millennial burnout: building resilience is no answer – we need to overhaul how we work

...research suggests there are generational differences. Specifically, millennials respond to emotional exhaustion (often the first stage of burnout) differently to baby boomers (people born between 1946 and 1964). When feeling emotionally exhausted, millennials are more likely to feel dissatisfied and want to leave their job than baby boomers. Burnout research shows that...
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Article 10 mins
Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model
Science, Maths & Technology

Katherine Johnson: NASA mathematician and much-needed role model

...children at that time) and had graduated from college by the time she was 18. Katherine became a wife, a mother and a teacher, and her story might have ended there, if it hadn’t been for her drive to continue with her mathematics. Human computer In the 1950s, the US government was continuing to develop its flight capabilities, for which it required computers. Not the...
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Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Thrill seeking and risk taking - what has made extreme sports into a worldwide phenomenon?

...Research examining personality in high risk sport frequently reports that those who participate tend to score more highly in three key personality characteristics, extroversion, openness and agreeableness when compared to other athletes or non-athletes (Klinar et al, 2017). Closely aligned to the personality research into risk-taking is Zuckerman et al’s (1964) research...
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Article 5 mins
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...children as well as young people? In short, it does, because in law children are defined as all those under 18 years of age. The concern about child criminal exploitation relates to those children who have been groomed, or led and exploited into criminal activity by adults. Examples could involve: Selling or transporting drugs, weapons, or money around towns and between...
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