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Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...statistics, they won't know what's going on on an everyday basis. They'll be keen to learn from you and ask their own questions. It's not just you who needs to know the knowledge and be observant, and look for things that are great, and look for things that need to improve, it's everyone. So from all levels, make sure that you do joint learning walks because they are...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...statistics, and a vast literature exists on the subject. One important role of software development processes is to reduce risk, particularly in relation to two fundamental categories: Problem-related risks: these are risks associated with misunderstanding the problem and the stakeholders’ requirements, or making inappropriate assumptions as to the context of the...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting adult learners’ positive mental health

...statistical manual of mental disorders, 5th edn. London: American Psychiatric Association. Antonovsky, A. (1984) ‘The sense of coherence as a determinant of health’, in J.D. Matarazzol (ed.) Behavioural Health. New York: Wiley, pp. 114–29. Brewster, L., Jones, E., Priestley, M., Wilbraham, S.J., Spanner, L and Hughes, G. (2022) ‘“Look after the staff and they...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...statistics, we're talking about, according to the crime survey, 5.1 million fraud offences in a year. That's seismic, it will dwarf crime. It's larger than all forms of crime combined. So therefore, the public want immediate results. Tackle fraud, do something about it. But the reality is that 50 per cent of fraud is committed by criminals that don't live in the United...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...Statistics Provides information on jobs in the public and private sectors, and gives an analysis of the UK workforce jobs by sector. It also looks at industry changes. Social media networks A new and developing source of information about jobs and companies. Radio programmes Local programmes might report on site closures or new businesses starting up in the area, for...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Innovation, markets and industrial change
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation, markets and industrial change

...statistics that enable us to estimate the relative contributions of the different industries to national income, and to detect which parts of the economy are growing or contracting over time. To speak of a market directs attention towards the relations between suppliers (as sellers) and buyers of a particular good. It is usually taken for granted that buyers and sellers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...statistical information below, then rank the professions by job satisfaction. Start with the job with the highest percentage of happy workers, and work down to the lowest. Welche Berufe glücklich machen Als Mechatroniker zu arbeiten macht siebenundfünfzig Prozent glücklich. Ausgerechnet die wohlbezahlten Banker sind nur zu vierundvierzig Prozent glücklich im Beruf und...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Obesity: balanced diets and treatment
Science, Maths & Technology

Obesity: balanced diets and treatment

...statistical correlation is far from perfect, which means that the genetic variation explains only a part of the individual variation in body weight. However, in most cases inheritance of obesity is not consistent with a single gene change. If you look back over the different examples that we have discussed, you can see that this is exactly what would be expected. Even...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs