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Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...simple acts of kindness and expressions of concern can make a big difference to help bereaved people. However, death can be hard to talk about and many people struggle to know what to say when trying to support someone. If you’re caring for someone who has lost someone Mind provide a wealth of advice on how to help them as best you can. An introduction to death, dying...
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Fatih Birol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Fatih Birol - Stories of Change

...simple. This is the thing. If their efficiency was improved by only two percentage points, the emission savings coming from there is equal to the European Union’s reduction of emissions targets, just only that. And the important thing is here, going from inefficient to efficient coal-fired plants, the cost of capital, the increase, is less than 10%, which is nothing. So...
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School business manager: Developing the role
Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

...simple matrix to guide you by clicking on ‘view document’ below. Click on 'view document' below to read Futures Group Matrix View document Another useful tool in understanding the natural life cycle of an organisation is the Sigmoid curve, as described by Handy (1995). Read the explanation in the document below. Click on 'view document' below to read The Sigmoid Curve...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...simple examples that highlight the distinction: You choose, buy and eat an ice cream. Here you are the customer and consumer. Your child chooses and eats an ice cream but you pay for it. Here your child is the consumer and you are the customer. The second example is of interest because marketing activity is likely to be focused on the consumer rather than the customer....
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...simple questionnaire and discussion both to inform yourself further on the views of the young people you work with, and to stimulate them to begin to think more about the issues for themselves. You should consider in your context whether, in view of potential sensitivities, you should make participation voluntary, and in any case avoid forcing contributions from...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Creating open educational resources
Education & Development

Creating open educational resources

...simple definition to show that these are resources which are to be freely accessed, reused, modified, and shared. They’re free, and that freely is about the freedoms, not about that it’s at no cost. Because there is always some cost involved. What is the meaning of open in OER ‘Implications of OER for mediating teaching and learning opportunities – what are you...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Introduction to making political and social change
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to making political and social change

...simple as signing a petition, or writing about it on social media, or it could involve a bigger time commitment). One of the ways you may want to make change if you are based in the UK is through the UK Parliament. Read on to see how you can do this...Introduction to making political and social change: 2 Making change via the UK Parliament - [Described image] Figure 4:...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A Europe of the Regions?
Society, Politics & Law

A Europe of the Regions?

...simple or necessary correspondence between types of region and types of regionalism. But clearly-demarcated and long-established regions are a more likely basis for strong regionalist or nationalist movements, while top-down regionalisation often results in regions with little popular identity or awareness of the region by its own inhabitants. Pre-existing regional...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs