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Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...energy and effort has been spent on considering leadership in a range of other contexts, leadership in policing has not been studied to the same extent (Schafer, 2009). One recent study argued that there are seven key characteristics and five key activities which define effective police leadership: Characteristics Ethical behaviour Trustworthiness Legitimacy Being a role...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle
History & The Arts

Piracy, anonymity & parametric politics: An interview with Ned Rossiter and Soenke Zehle

...energy consumed and costs related to the construction and maintenance of data infrastructures. This inevitably means they want a return on investment, since the idea of public infrastructures for communication no longer attracts much support from the neoliberal state. Such forces and material conditions constitute an ethico-political dimension that all too often goes...
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Article 15 mins
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market
Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

...energy and enthusiasm in pursuing projects. Interpersonal skills: The ability to relate well to others and establish good working relationships. Numeracy: Competence and understanding of numerical data, statistics and graphs. Activity 8 Read the case study in Worksheet 4. Jack evaluates his voluntary experience and what action was taken, by using a STARE grid and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...energy resource, Dragons Den and I’ll put my face on, sometimes I’ll knock that off but sometimes I do forget. One of the most important things about TES is it’s atime saver when you go home sometimes there’s no time to make outstanding resources so when there’s one already there for you it is really useful. You will need to change it, etc. but the impact it’s...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...energy technologies, such as electricity or nuclear power; or mechanical ones, including the internal combustion engine and the jet; or medical ones, such as vaccination or antibiotics. Maybe you thought of mass-communication technologies, including radio and television. However, it's not possible to look at the applied science of the latter half of the 20th and the early...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...energy, enthusiasm and commitment come into the evaluation? The activity you have just engaged in is the first of several such activities. It is an example of a pattern of activities that constitute reflective practice or reflective learning. This style of learning is based on the notion that the understandings most useful to us, and that most readily become part of us,...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...energy of sunlight trapped during photosynthesis became stored in vast amounts of plant litter that accumulated on the floor of the forests and in swamps. Eventually, this debris was buried, compressed and converted by heat and pressure into coal; 300 Ma later the energy from Carboniferous sunlight fuelled the Industrial Revolution. Not until Permian times did reptiles...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...energy operating rather than managing. Operating is often easier and more rewarding than managing, and it is usually less demanding and carries fewer risks. However, you need to maintain the right balance. To do this you need to be able to separate operating and managing very clearly. New managers can find the transition difficult. Older managers may have failed to make...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs