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Exploring educational leadership
Education & Development

Exploring educational leadership

...systems (Cuban, 1988). From this perspective, for example, a subject leader may manage the resources to support a change in teaching method that they have been leading their colleagues to consider. This course adopts a critical perspective and argues that educational leadership and management are contested concepts. For example, we can question Cuban’s (1988) view that...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Banks as utilities and the future of payments
Money & Business

Banks as utilities and the future of payments

...think about all the different possible ways that our clients can connect to the digital platform. The key strength of Ecobank is that we have these relationships in 33 countries with the regulators. That means we’re able to construct systems like rapid transfer, which is a means of making instant transfers from one Ecobank account to another one in a different country....
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Article 10 mins
Supporting children's development
Education & Development

Supporting children's development

...think about how convincing their arguments sound, and reflect on your own views on reward systems. Mann, S. (2013) ‘Why “100% attendance awards” at school don’t work’, Huffington Post, 10 June [online]. Available at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ sandi-mann/ why-100-attendance-awards_b_3414693.html (accessed 17 December 2015). Paton, G. (2009) ‘Classroom...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...system that you have in your home – solar powered or otherwise – can you think of any further sources of heat? Discussion People give off heat, and the more of them you can fit into your home the less you will need other sources of heat, as you may have noticed at a crowded party. Household appliances are also incidental sources of heat. A refrigerator, for example,...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
The house doesn't always win
Digital & Computing

The house doesn't always win

...systems, to heating systems and lightbulbs can connect to the internet – either to receive content (such as movies and music), or to allow for remote monitoring (‘how warm is my house right now?’) or control (turn the oven on, I’m on my way home). The thermometer was used to monitor the water temperature in an aquarium and sent data over the casino’s wireless...
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Article 5 mins
Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane
Society, Politics & Law

Six ways Sajid Javid can make British migration policy more humane

...system less hostile and more humane. ...Britain’s increasingly brutal regime of “migration control” has come to a head. After almost two years as home secretary, Amber Rudd resigned on April 29, apologising for misleading parliament of deportation targets, amid public revulsion at the treatment of British people who had come from the Caribbean half a century ago....
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Article 5 mins
Read this before you fall for a personalised book
History & The Arts

Read this before you fall for a personalised book

...systemic racism in the publishing industry requires systemic changes. Swapping a White child with a Black child does not change the rules of the publishing game. Most popular personalised books portray children as the heroes and stars of their own stories. This might be empowering to some, and insulting to other, children.Most popular personalised books portray children...
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Article 15 mins
Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Charlie Sheen, Rock Hudson and the changing face of HIV stigma

...systems is to formulate effective responses on all three fronts; and to measure effectiveness, we need metrics. Demonstrating the efficacy of biomedical interventions is relatively straightforward. Likewise, we can measure the effectiveness of interpersonal interventions to improve knowledge and change behaviours. But intervening on the social/political level is more...
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Article 5 mins