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Taking your first steps into higher education Badge icon
Education & Development

Taking your first steps into higher education

...Creative Writing) History (perhaps including History of Science/Technology) Music Art History Religious Studies Philosophy Classical Studies. Some universities will also include creative disciplines like Fine Art or Dance, while others will include Modern Foreign Languages. For reasons of space we have not introduced the quite distinctive models of learning found in those...
Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations

...creative writing and performance. But so much of our everyday experience is influenced by aesthetic engagements – we find certain experiences, people and spaces pleasing in an embodied and sensory way. Such an aesthetic response is beyond the purely calculative and rational – it is the poetry of everyday life, and is what brings us pleasure. As you have already...
Hybrid working: skills for leadership
Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

...creative writing, research an example of a great hybrid leader and one you think is a poor hybrid leader. For each example, consider the impact they have on their organisation and its employees. Again, aim to write about 200 words maximum for each version. Do you share any traits with the leaders you have written about?...Hybrid working: skills for leadership: 2.1 Control...
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Languages

Describing language

...creative writing skills to the test. Activity 2 Change the verb, improve the story Timing: This activity should take around 20 minutes Read the following short story and then rewrite your own version of it in the box below. You can only change the verbs that have been italicised in the original. The astronaut stepped out of the pod door and onto the planet’s surface....
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...creative writing and has published her own book of children’s poetry. Most of their week is spent organising the children’s section, ordering in books and dealing with customer queries which can be in person, by phone or increasingly by email. On Thursday mornings, John meets with two other colleagues, Josh and Viv, who work in different sections of the shop. Together...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...creative writing, a particular challenge to the autistic student. For instance, a child may have difficulty imagining the emotions or actions of the characters. The empathising-systemising model (Week 4) suggests that autistic children are likely to be drawn to systematic subjects like science and mathematics, although this is undoubtedly an oversimplification. Some...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its study...This free course is an introduction to the relationship between language and creativity, to the roles that linguistic creativity plays in culture and society, and to the different approaches to its study....Language and creativity: ......
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Collective Creativity
Money & Business

Collective Creativity

...creative class' be broken down? Should they? How do creative people contribute to society and the economy?...[Colourful graphic that spells the word Creativity. The background is made up of different sized maroon squares along the top and a black background everywhere else. The word creativity is written in bright colours and a mixture of graphics.] Despite a lot of...