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Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...Education and Skills Survey Report, which includes 190,000 employers, places strong emphasis on how essential and interconnected character, knowledge and skills are, in enabling people to be ‘work ready’. Employers look for much more than just formal qualifications: Character: individual traits, values and strengths, leading to confidence in managing setbacks,...
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Article 10 mins
Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens
Education & Development

Disseminating across the margins: bridging communities and academia through a Black feminist lens

...education, health and social care services provides me with a unique perspective that is deeply personal and rich with insight. Yet, as a member of the academic community, I am also part of a system that has historically marginalised voices like mine. My current research project, titled ‘Mothering at the Margins’, has been designed with another researcher who is also...
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Article 35 mins
Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?
Digital & Computing

Can we overcome cyber-fatigue to secure ourselves online?

...education' There is a global need for a larger and highly skilled cybersecurity workforce. Much of that will be hands-on practitioners performing technical or operational tasks. Accordingly, many efforts tend to focus on producing task-oriented technicians through intensive technical bootcamps, cyber competitions, or the misguided belief that everyone needs to be a...
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Article 5 mins
Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey
Society, Politics & Law

Bus driver, social worker and university lecturer, a personal, professional and political journey

...educational courses for stewards and I partook in as many of these as possible. In reflecting on my own learning journey, I can identify that my engagement with the concepts and theories relating to adult learning has occurred at different levels, ie, personal, professional and philosophical. For example, when I recall my decision to ‘return to learn’, I am now aware...
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Article 5 mins
Can the Economy be Irish?
Money & Business

Can the Economy be Irish?

...de-globalising project. ...[Scrabble words spelling out the word 'Brexit'] Image credit: Speedpropertybuyers The Irish are great storytellers, illuminated through the centuries by Beckett, Yeats, O’Brien, Shaw, Wilde, Binchy, Enright and Joyce to name a few. The great English lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, said that narrative is the superior form of knowledge, whilst...
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Article 10 mins
Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why mental fitness is as important as physical fitness

...de-de-de-de. You know, mentally you need to be able to cope with all that pressure and to kind of execute what you’ve done that makes you so good and do it in the most intense situations. Caroline: Pressure is a big part of being involved in a sport so the pressure of, for example, preparing for an Olympic Games in terms of being selected for Olympic Games is a big...
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Video 10 mins
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...education and employment, and it enriches one’s personal life and growth. Learning to read is therefore a key goal of primary or elementary education, and high-quality literacy instruction is fundamental to any literacy curriculum. An effective literacy curriculum not only teaches children how to read, it also inspires them to want to read. Developing the skill to read...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'
Education & Development

Supporting young researchers with 'MyShout!'

...educate them through engaging and interactive activities. ...What is MyShout!? MyShout! is an online resource which young researchers can use to teach themselves about how to do social research. It was designed by Dr Cindy Kerawalla and a group of young researchers. MyShout! divides research into 8 easily digestible stages. Young researchers can work their way through the...
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Article 10 mins