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Returning to STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...to create a system or chain of information, contacts and support’ (De Janasz et al., 2009, p. 328). This definition highlights the benefits of belonging to networks. They provide the three key ingredients that a returner needs when looking for a job or re-establishing a career – ‘information, contacts and support’. Returners often say that they don’t have any networks and it is true that it can be hard to keep ......
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
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Society, Politics & Law

Advancing Black leadership

...de Gruyter. Collinson, D. (1994) ‘Strategies of resistance: Power, knowledge and subjectivity in the workplace’, in J. Jernier, D. Knights and W. Nord. (eds) Resistance and power in organizations. London: Routledge, pp. 25–68. Gagnon, S. and Collinson, D. (2017) ‘Resistance through difference: The co-constitution of dissent and inclusion’, Organization Studies,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...de-stress, allows us to catch ourselves before it spirals. The personal resilience of those leading or supporting the diversity and inclusion agenda within your workplace can have a big impact on the success of their leadership. If you want to learn more about resilience at work, investigate the OpenLearn badged open course: Developing career resilience...Week 5: Skills...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring career mentoring and coaching Badge icon
Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...de Telemaque, referring to Mentor as a ‘guide and instructor’ and ‘another father’. McKimm, Jollie and Hatter (2007, p. 2) make a historical link to the Middle Ages, when they explain that mentoring ‘became common practice in the time of the guilds and trade apprenticeships when young people, having acquired technical skills, often benefited from the patronage...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Primary education: listening and observing Badge icon
Education & Development

Primary education: listening and observing

...DES. Her Majesty’s Government (2004) Children Act 2004, London, HMSO. Malaguzzi, L. (1993) The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood Education, New Jersey, Ablex Publishing Corporation. Ofsted (2015a) Inspecting Safeguarding in Maintained Schools and Academies, London, Ofsted. Ofsted (2015b) Working Together to Safeguard Children,...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...de-synchronized in hibernation. Another monoamine, melatonin, is involved in making these adjustments. A hormone rather than a neurotransmitter, melatonin is secreted by the pineal gland on the dorsal side of the brain. Removal of this gland can cause disturbances in both the ‘clock’ and the ‘calendar’ settings of mammals. Melatonin travels both to the pre-optic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Environmental management and organisations
Nature & Environment

Environmental management and organisations

...de facto law for business’ (KPMG, 2011, p. 2), it still remains a voluntary approach...Environmental management and organisations: 15.1.2 Drivers - Whilst organisations usually have a choice, adopting and maintaining a voluntary code or similar standard may be in an organisation’s interest – perhaps to demonstrate good and responsible practices. In the case of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...de-escalate it really effectively. And then stakeholders into your health. So you've got the immediate response in terms of the ambulance service. But then one of the big issues that we found and were able to have some particular success around was drawing down funding from the winter pressures fund. Because actually if we can divert people away from A & E at the times...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs