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Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...thinking and practice. Both courses have been written from a UK perspective and primarily with UK case study content. If you are studying from outside the UK, then we encourage you to reflect on differences and similarities in your own context. Take time to look for local case studies that illustrate (or challenge) key learning points, and compare and contrast sector...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
US Election 2016: A last week reading list
Society, Politics & Law

US Election 2016: A last week reading list

...thinking about where we'll be with the US election next week. In the meantime, here's a small dip into the many thousands of pieces being published about the face-off: As if the shifting of the opinion polls wasn't complicated enough, Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight explains why it's getting more likely that Hillary could win the most votes, and Donald still wind up as...
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Herbal medicine
Health, Sports & Psychology

Herbal medicine

...thinking was along the lines of "why give a patient a herb tea with an indeterminate amount of active ingredients, when it is possible to administer a small white pill with precisely measured amounts?" And so drugs such as digoxin, derived originally from foxgloves, and aspirin, based on chemicals found in meadowsweet and willow bark, were isolated and then synthesised...
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Article 10 mins
Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Harry Marshall - Earth in Vision

...think has always sort of stood me in good stead and perhaps even inspired my career choice. He said, ‘You do this by the combination of a pair of binoculars, tweezers and a jam jar. And what you do is you look at the elephant through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars, you pick them up with tweezers and you put them in a jam jar.’ And I’ve always thought that...
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Video 30 mins
Meddylfryd mentora (A mentoring mindset)
Education & Development

Meddylfryd mentora (A mentoring mindset)

...system addysg Cymru, a bydd fersiwn Gymraeg o’r cwrs yn cael ei chyhoeddi yn ddiweddarach yn 2022. Mae’r negeseuon ynghylch egwyddorion mentora a hyfforddi effeithiol a’r rôl bwysig mae mentoriaid yn ei chwarae fel addysgwyr athrawon yng nghyd-destun ysgolion yn parhau’r un fath ar draws systemau addysg. Bydd y cwrs yn gwella eich dealltwriaeth am rôl mentor o...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline
History & The Arts

Herodotus 'The Histories': a timeline

...system for recording dates. See, for example, Thucydides, 'The Peloponnesian War', Book 2, Ch. 2: “The 30 years' truce which was entered into after the conquest of Euboea lasted 14 years. In the 15th, the 48th year of the priestess-ship of Chrysis at Argos, in the Ephorate of Aenesias at Sparta, in the last month but two of the Archonship of Pythodorus at Athens, and...
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Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...think each makes her case? What points of continuity and change can you identify with nineteenth century concerns with education for citizenship? Finally, what points are made about the implications for welfare provision, of thinking of children as active citizens rather than future citizens? Children's rights part 1 (10.5 minutes 5 MB) Esther Saraga This tape is intended...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink
Nature & Environment

El Niño and war drive aid agencies to the brink

...system, designed to save those at risk of dying because of human or natural disasters, faces unprecedented demands in 2016 from levels of strain it has never before had to face, a leading development agency says. With more than 10 million people in a single African country expected to need international help next year, Oxfam says the effects of a super El Niño will...
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Article 10 mins