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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...work”. Although we inevitably hear most about high-profile cases of failure, leadership is not a process that just takes place at the top of the hierarchy. If we want to know about leadership and how it works in an organisational setting, we also need to look at how leadership behaviours and attitudes are diffused throughout the whole organisation. What the research...
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The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute
Society, Politics & Law

The 2001 Glasgow NHS Medical Secretaries Grading Dispute

...worked with on a daily basis, i.e. who they were managed by. Medical Secretaries worked for senior doctors and consultants, transcribing doctor’s notes and discharge letters which contained information relating to diagnosis, prognosis and medications. This work required a high degree of accuracy and was underpinned by a specific qualification. In contrast, Management...
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Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...works as a clickable symbol of solidarity and has established momentum in recognising the immensity of the problem of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. But is Twitter an effective public sphere to bring harassment and assault out into the open where it can be politicised? What is the public sphere? Habermas (1989, cited in Fuchs 2013) argues that the concept...
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Building a crystal radio set
Science, Maths & Technology

Building a crystal radio set

...work. Generally the aerial will be a length of wire, which should be as long and as high as possible. A wire strung from an upstairs window to a distant tree will work well; say 30 metres long and seven metres high. The type of wire is not critical, but PVC covered stranded copper wire of about 2 milimetres diameter will work well. If the wire is too thin it may break in...
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Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive
Education & Development

Five tips to make online teaching neuroinclusive

...working in Online and Distance Education for twenty years, and in that time I’ve watched online teaching take shape as a mainstream mode of distance education. One thing I’ve noticed over the years is that a lot of teachers are understandably uncertain about how to make their teaching more accessible to neurodivergent students who might have a range of different –...
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Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach
Education & Development

Learning to teach: making sense of learning to teach

...worked on the radio and, I suppose, reasonably successfully (I’d worked with Chris Evans for six years)... but I felt towards the end of it – and I'm sure that getting up at 3:45 every morning wasn’t helping my mental state at all – I felt that towards the end of it that I was getting tired and that the challenges of broadcasting were not quite as great as they...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael
History & The Arts

Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael

...work, the enduring notion of 'genius' and the artist as a source of meaning...Individual artists have been the traditional focus of art history, but how do we evaluate the figure of the artist? This free course, Artists and authorship: the case of Raphael, takes the life of Raphael as a case study. You will examine sixteenth-century sources to explore the creation of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...work out the sum of each row without adding up the individual numbers. If you can spot a pattern and then describe what happens in general, this can lead to a rule or formula. Provided you can prove that this rule will always work, it can then be used elsewhere. For example, if you can work out the general process for calculating a quarterly electricity bill and then give...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs