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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary at the time, said: ''The feeling across the trust is running very high…I have not spoken to a single consultant who would not be behind the medical secretaries.'' (The Herald, April 14, 2001) The subsequent ballot result overwhelmingly supported industrial action and by August 8, 2001, Medical Secretaries in NEG Trust began 3 days strike...
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Article 10 mins
Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Talking about weight in therapy – Top tips for size affirmative practice

...based Association for Size Diversity and Health (ASDAH) and the National Association for the Advancement of Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) may also be of interest. Fat Lives by Irmgard Tischner is a research based study which can give insight into how larger people experience living in a fatphobic society. You can read more about the ‘Headless Fatties’ phenomenon at Charlotte...
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Article 10 mins
Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette
Society, Politics & Law

Autumn Statement 2016: Tories shift to growth strategy in an Ed Balls-style pirouette

...based on the belief that tax reductions will actually close a budget deficit by boosting people’s ability and willingness to pay taxes. This wilts under economic analysis. And when reality bites, a switch is made from taxing less to spending more on structures that can constitute a public asset as “security” for the additional public debt. Labour broke the...
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Article 10 mins
From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...based systems proved to be highly effective and useful in specific domains; they proved to be as good, or even better than humans in making decisions within specific areas of knowledge. An AI designed for diagnosing childhood diseases or for viewing seismic data used in oil exploration would not be useful in other areas of knowledge. Optimism about the potential for...
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Article 5 mins
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...based approach, and the main implications of the shift from training to learning explain what we mean by coaching and mentoring and how they can support learning practise a range of foundation coaching skills...Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring: 1 The traditional training-based approach - The traditional way of thinking about learning and development in...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...La Trobe is the artist in the text; she writes and directs the pageant acted by the villagers on that June day. Nature too plays its part: The lawn was as flat as the floor of a theatre. The terrace, rising, made a natural stage. The trees barred the stage like pillars. And the human figure was seen to great advantage against a background of sky. As for the weather, it...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Why use literature reviews in health and social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why use literature reviews in health and social care?

...based practice in health and social care. A literature review can offer a systematic way in which to sift through information to produce relevant existing knowledge and discern knowledge gaps. This short course explores different examples of the use of literature reviews that have informed policy and practice; social work with older people, cessation of cigarette smoking...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Understanding service improvement in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding service improvement in healthcare

...based or resource-based. Are people working closely with patients’ expectations and experiences or making the best use of finite resources? Is ‘service’ based on needs or on available resources? This poses some interesting challenges for reflecting on improvement, because the question arises: how do you evaluate such a diverse activity? As a necessity: Healthcare is...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs