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Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...Dan Taylor, Head of Security, NHS Digital, the following were the main reasons that the NHS was so affected (Evenstad, 2017). The NHS had a complicated organisational structure that allocated the responsibilities of policy making, service commissioning and data and information organisation to three different bodies, namely the Department of Health, NHS England and NHS...
Introduction to computational thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to computational thinking

...La trahison des images (The Treachery of Images). The part of reality for which one creates a model or representation doesn’t need to be a static object such as a pipe or dictionary. It can also be a process or system which changes over time. In that case, the model will not only have to capture any enduring properties of interest, but also any changes in time that are...
Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...La Rose, and Sarah White, and they weren’t just about book selling, they were about providing the tools that communities could use to build an education movement in this country. ERIC HUNTLEY We were the first ones to import books from the States with Black images on it. We printed cards with a Black Christ. And in those days, to have photographs and pictures and...
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...religion, economic status, ethnicity and disability. And we also know that girls' limited access to education is underpinned by pervasive gender inequality. This research gives us a unique opportunity to match the program to the girls' needs. We need to know about these particular girls, and one way that we can do this is to involve girls in the research process. For this...
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...religions hold beliefs that mean they do not recognise mental health issues as an illness. Instead, the causes of behaviours in children that are outside the norm are sometimes attributed to other explanatory models, a contentious example being that a child is possessed by evil spirits. Now listen to the following audio in which Liz Middleton, one of the course authors,...
Principles and practices of peace education
Education & Development

Principles and practices of peace education

...Religion, I was on, I think these tables, we were talking about religion a little bit. I was born Catholic, but then my mom’s Muslim, my brother’s Muslim. And I believe in a lot of things. With these kinds of conversations, it takes a level of vulnerability for the staff engaged in these kinds of conversations. Because you put yourselves at the scrutiny of the...
A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)
Education & Development

A mentoring mindset (Meddylfryd mentora)

...religion she said, truth is like surgery, it hurts but it cures. Skirting around truth is like a paracetamol tablet, it gives temporary relief but doesn’t get to the root cause of the issue. Encouragement is one of the key tools in your toolkit. Encouragement and feedback, our sixth building block is characterized by the phrase, effective balance. It is a balance...
Introducing International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing International Relations

...Religion as a motivation for terror] In recent times, terrorist attacks are often associated with religious fundamentalism. The 1990s saw a series of events in which radical religious zealots used terrorism, often indiscriminately, against civilians, aiming to inflict as many casualties as possible. Examples of what’s been called ‘new terrorism’ include the bombing...