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Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...work has focused on the concept of personality – a highly familiar, and yet complex, psychological concept. Traditionally, personality is viewed by psychologists as the collection of traits, needs, values, self-beliefs, and social attitudes that make a person unique. This approach also suggests that each person exhibits consistent and stable patterns of behaviour across...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development

...work of local actors and their meaning making process situated in historically evolving activity systems. Thus, drawing broad generalizations about the practices, tools, and work of local actors from one program or school to another without regard for the complexities and idiosyncrasies of particular institutional contexts may result in unintended consequences. To...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
We invented the weekend!
Money & Business

We invented the weekend!

...worked a six day week. Then in 1843, in Greater Manchester, workers’ rights activists launched a campaign to finish early on Saturdays. They won, and in doing so, invented the weekend – a gift to workers the world over! We’re marking this enormous achievement with a new and imaginative free festival from Salford. The festival of free time MediaCity and Salford...
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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...Work such as communication, leadership and mentoring, whilst others help in building Everyday Skills for Life from good mental health through to managing money. We also offer courses in improving a learner’s basic maths and English and advice in writing CV’s and attending interviews to help Kickstart employees into sustainable employment should they progress...
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Are you a design creative?
Science, Maths & Technology

Are you a design creative?

...work not as craftspeople, but also as ‘knowledge experts’. Designers became responsible for generating ideas that would add value to a product by making it for instance more desirable, safer or easier to use. Ultimately, designers became responsible for the creation of blueprints that will help construct or manufacture a particular type of product (e.g. a building, a...
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Video 5 mins
Step up to leadership
Money & Business

Step up to leadership

...work of others. (Handy, 1992) There are a number of themes of leadership running through these definitions, including: having a vision, direction and purpose developing and establishing a common goal working with change influencing others giving meaning to others. On reading these definitions, you might have noticed something very important: none make any mention of rank,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Commercial awareness
Money & Business

Commercial awareness

...working context, whilst acknowledging much more complex interrelationships within the organisation...Commercial awareness: 1 Understanding your organisation and how it creates value - There are good reasons why you should not stop your investigation at the edge of the organisation, but continue to zoom in through organisational boundaries to explore the activities and...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...work; it did not mean art as we might understand it today, but a craft activity demanding a high level of technical ability including tapestry weaving, goldsmith’s work or embroidery. Literary statements of what constituted the arts during the medieval period are rare, particularly in northern Europe, but proliferate in the Renaissance. They deliver the odd surprise. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs