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Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...accountability – explaining the decisions and actions of the governing body to anyone who has a legitimate interest There are many aspects to the role of governor, and all governors bring a wide range of existing skills, experience and knowledge to their role. The work of your governing body draws upon that wide range of skills and experiences. Schools and the education...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic psychology

...accounts. By contrast, the inquisitorial system found in many European countries and other parts of the world is described as: The court is viewed as a public agency appointed to get to the bottom of the disputed matter. The court takes the initiative in gathering information as soon as it has notice of the dispute, builds up a file on the matter by questioning all those...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Developing your skills as an HR professional
Money & Business

Developing your skills as an HR professional

...account of the characteristics of each of the learning 'types' identified by Honey and Mumford. Table 1 Learning styles: strengths and weaknesses LEARNING STYLE STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES Activist Flexible and open-minded. Happy to have a go. Happy to be exposed to new situations. Optimistic about anything new and therefore unlikely to resist change. Tendency to take the...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...account...The database development life cycle: 1.1.1 Desirable properties of a database - As you will see, there are many possible choices that can be made during the design and many rules to guide this work. When trying to decide if some choices are better than others, you need to consider the key desirable properties of a database. The table here outlines some of them:...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...account by the law. Discussion Everyone accepts that children are in a state of change and development. Throughout adolescence – roughly the period between 12 and 21 – children’s bodies will be growing and taking on more of the physical characteristics commonly associated with adulthood. It is only relatively recently that advances in neuroscience have revealed...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Project management: the start of the project journey
Money & Business

Project management: the start of the project journey

...account resource constraints. (APM, 2006, p. 147) The Olympic Games is an example of a portfolio that is owned by the country that acts as the host of such a special event. Consequently, a programme is associated with each of the different sports involved as well as one to deal with the changes in infrastructure needed for the Olympic Games to go ahead. It is also...
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Level 3: Advanced 35 hrs
What were Victorian pauper's graves like?
History & The Arts

What were Victorian pauper's graves like?

...account of a tragedy in a London graveyard gives an insight into the way the poor were buried in 19th Century England...Friday evening an inquest was held in the committee- room at the workhouse of the parish of St Botolph, Aldgate, on the bodies of Thomas Oakes, the grave-digger belonging to Aldgate Church, and Edward Luddett, a fish-dealer at Billingsgate, who came by...
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Article 10 mins
Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?
Society, Politics & Law

Can the way research is reported play into sexist assumptions?

...accounts of gender differences. By framing gender differences as biological inevitabilities, this type of neuro-discourse can sanction and sustain prevailing gender hierarchies. The recruitment of neuroscience to validate traditional gender roles was vividly illustrated in an analysis that Helene Joffe and I conducted of media responses to the aforementioned PNAS study....
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