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Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...FAQs, to help them explain to colleagues the positive benefits of having accurate data around the diversity of the workforce. Since the launch of the communications campaign, they saw a 4% increase in completion of ethnic origin data, equating to over 3,000 colleagues voluntarily updating their details. Another approach, undertaken more frequently than the larger staff...
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Education & Development

Succeed in the workplace

...De Montfort University Assistant librarian Management of Library Social Sciences section Supervision of Library assistants Management training Decision taking Budget management Providing relevant and appropriate information 1998 – to date Milton Keynes University Assistant librarian Creation of new library service Business management Process costing Information literacy...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...de-greased and cleansed skin), thought out or discovered how it can be done (soap in the form of a shower gel), designed, set up and run the means for making the thing (raw materials, process equipment, energy source, labour and finance) and delivered it to the consumer. You can see that this nutshell description of what engineering involves already identifies or implies...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Digital communications
Digital & Computing

Digital communications

...de-sac? In the 1980s, a lot of research effort was expended on developing a technique known as ‘coherent detection’ of optical signals. The technique involved applying to optical signals a method that is widely used in the detection of radio signals, but that is much more difficult to do with optical signals because of the very much higher frequency of light (of the...
Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...de libération nationale led the fight for independence. The colonising countries generally viewed such violence as terrorist activity. Citizens of the colonised countries inevitably perceive this as a delegitimization of their struggle for liberation. This difference in perspective is one reason it’s hard to get an international consensus on what terrorism is,...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...de/documents/publications/studies/Photovoltaics-Report.pdf (Accessed 7 August 2024) Global Carbon Project (2023) Briefing on key messages: Global Carbon Budget 2023. Available at: https://globalcarbonbudget.org/carbonbudget2023/ (Accessed: 4 August 2024). IEA (International Energy Agency) (2021) Net zero by 2050: a roadmap for the global energy sector. Available at:...
Understanding ADHD
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding ADHD

...De Lima, M. S., Horta, B. L. et al. (2007) ‘The worldwide prevalence of ADHD: a systematic review and metaregression analysis’, The American Journal of Psychiatry, 164(6), pp. 942–948. Reale, L., Bartoli, B., Cartabia, M. et al. and Lombardy ADHD Group (2017) ‘Comorbidity prevalence and treatment outcome in children and adolescents with ADHD’, European Child &...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Coaching others to coach

...De Bruyckere et al. (2015) present evidence that PBL is appropriate when applying existing knowledge to new problems; it is not an effective approach for acquiring new knowledge. Having considered these aspects of PBL, you will now look at two examples where this approach to teaching might be used...Session 5: Developing your teaching repertoire and skills: 2.1 When would...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs