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Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...Write them down in a list, and then consider the following questions for each of your examples. What was the impact, or is the likely impact, of the change in the external context on your organisation? Were you, or will you be, able to mediate the change? Did the culture, or might the culture, of the country or the locality mediate the change? Has the outcome, or likely...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
IT in everyday life
Science, Maths & Technology

IT in everyday life

...creativity can even be automated. Computers already write good music for instance. What will be left are those areas of work that need the human touch. We will quickly move through the information economy into the care economy, exploring what it is we want from each other when we can automate most of the physical and mental bits of our work. […] Equipment for the...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Working in the voluntary sector Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Working in the voluntary sector

...write down everything you did in a recent activity. This could be something you completed at work, while volunteering or spending time with your family, or in your community or other position. For each task, note down roughly how much time you spent on this (either actual time in hours or as a percentage of the day). You will return to this list in Activity 2. Here is a...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...write a short description of them...Intermediate Italian: describing people: 1 Physical appearance - In this section you will work on describing people’s physical appearance in Italian. [Described image] Figure 1...Intermediate Italian: describing people: Describing people's faces - In this first activity you will work on the vocabulary and structures you will need to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...writing, listening, speaking, gesturing, grimacing, laughing, crying, etc. You are using language right now! Given its importance, perhaps it’s useful to begin by asking ourselves: What exactly do we mean by ‘language’? As a first step, consider the difference between ‘language’ and ‘languages’. Activity 1 Timing: Allow 30 minutes Watch the videos below,...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...writing on papyri. Later still, there developed a cursive, everyday script called demotic, that looks like a mad doctor's handwriting at the end of a bad day. Most of the handful of extant mathematical papyri are written in hieratic. Because of the great variability of hieratic and demotic in the hands of different scribes, Egyptologists habitually transcribe all texts...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India
Health, Sports & Psychology

Postcards from the doctor: Spreading health care messages in India

...writing postcards. [Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah] Doctor Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah Over the course of his career, Dr. Aaraveeti Ramayogaiah wrote about 27,000 postcards to patients and acquaintances. Most of them explained preventive health care practices, like washing hands and boiling water. The postcards were intended to help thousands of people who couldn't afford or...
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Article 5 mins
Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?
Society, Politics & Law

Why is the time right for Donald Trump's style of charismatic leadership?

...writes, “unless times were truly desperate.” This is part of why Trump’s constant emphasis on inept politicians, broken policies, and the threat of terror and immigration works in his favor. Even his slogan, “Make American Great Again,” ominously implies that we are no longer great. Charismatic authority is also, paradoxically, unstable. While followers tend to...
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Article 5 mins