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Personal branding for career success Badge icon
Money & Business

Personal branding for career success

...attention and acquiring cultural and monetary value.’ A. Hearn (2008, p.179) For the purposes of this course, we will approach it as a useful tool for promoting yourself effectively and consistently to employers, current and future. Understanding and developing your personal brand in this context can help you to gain greater job satisfaction and progress your career as...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
What is Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What is Europe?

...attention to the ambiguous role of Russia. His discussion touches four major tensions in European developments and the contrasts that continue to play a leading part in contemporary Europe. They emerge as major themes in the course as a whole, and can be summed up in terms of: unity and diversity, consensus and conflict, transformation and tradition, inclusion and...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...attention that allows me to notice the experience and its components. The second is memory. Calling experience to mind allows me to examine the experience and to think about it in ways that were not possible at the time. Learning is what I take away from that process that influences my behaviour or thinking in the future. But huge amounts of experience escape without...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits
Education & Development

Enhancing pupil learning on museum visits

...attention alongside personal collections of precious oddities. We have a dynamic national network of hi-tech, interactive science centres, encouraging creative thinking and practical experimentation. The centres look back at the history of science, explain key theories and principles and look to the future. Their emphasis is always on doing and discovering, based on the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Volunteering in the community
Education & Development

Volunteering in the community

...attention of the local council, who quickly started asking her to get more involved in their work. “And the rest is history”, she says. Being a councillor has given Helen a fresh perspective on her community, and she says what keeps her motivated to stay involved is the joy she gets from working with all kinds of different people who live and work in the town....
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Article 5 mins
Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Flying Fatigued: Fatigue in Aviation

...attentiveness, impaired memory, and withdrawn mood. Fatigue may manifest itself for a pilot through inaccurate flying, missed radio calls, symptoms of equipment malfunctions being missed, routine tasks being performed inaccurately or even forgotten. In extreme cases, communication is reduced, short-term memory can be impaired and falling asleep - either a short...
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Article 5 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...attention. In the summer of 1816, we visited Switzerland, and became the neighbours of Lord Byron. At first we spent our pleasant hours on the lake, or wandering on its shores; and Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light...
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Article 5 mins
Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Eco-anxiety and how to cope with the Climate and Ecological Crisis

...attention to, and speak about in different contexts is socially constructed through rules. In his book, ‘The Elephant in the Room’, Eviatar Zerubavel (2006) describes the way in which certain subjects like climate change are avoided or considered taboo. These internalised social rules make it easier for us to ignore the topic of climate change to avoid feeling pain,...
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Article 5 mins