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Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...et al., 2006, Kuhn, 2000, Kistner, 2010). Being metacognitively aware as a teacher, involves understanding how your thinking (and therefore learning) is developing. Finally, Ixer highlights how, through metacognition, and conscious control of your thinking and learning, you will be more equipped to transfer your learning between different contexts and situations. This is...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Get ready for beginners’ French Badge icon
Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...ete/. The French word très is transcribed /tʀɛ/. [Described image] Figure 3 IPA in French The International Phonetic Alphabet is a useful tool, but it is complex – even for seasoned linguists. The good news is that as a beginner, you will absolutely not be expected to memorise it, or even use it at all if you don’t want to. But it’s useful to know about it, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The business of football
Money & Business

The business of football

...double-headed arrows pointing to labels around the outside. The labels are as follows: Government, Suppliers, Customers, Board of directors, Management and staff, Shareholders, Geographic neighbours, Industry organisations, Lobby groups, Unions, Competitors, Regulatory bodies, Media, Creditors.] Figure 6 Stakeholder groups In the private sector, stakeholders include the...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Companies and financial accounting
Money & Business

Companies and financial accounting

...et al. (2009, p. 5), the modern corporation has all five of the following characteristics: separate legal personality limited liability of its shareholders centralised delegated management under a board structure transferable shares (in the case of listed companies: freely tradable shares) absentee investor ownership. You will look at these each in turn next...Companies...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour
Money & Business

Corporate fraud and criminal behaviour

...et al. and Kassem both focus on the human resources department, noting that this plays an essential role in maintaining an effective control environment. The human resources department should have adequate processes in place for conducting relevant background checks on relevant personnel before accepting them to the firm. The human resources department should have clear...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Stories of Change

...doubling the size of our cities so we have to think very hard about the investment that we make and the structure of those cities. And that’s the first point, this is in many cases a building of our cities, an intensification of our cities which is going to come in the next 35 years or so. RH: Intensification meaning more densely packed buildings – NS: More people....
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Audio 5 mins
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...double helix-like tale of scientific discovery, the perfect illustration of how science works. There’s an underlying puzzle (narcolepsy), an origin story (Monique), foresight (Dement), ambition (Mignot), technological developments (genetics), a photogenic animal (Dobermans), a race (with Yanagisawa), it looks like science (optogenetics) and there’s a still-higher...
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Article 15 mins
Leadership: external context and culture
Education & Development

Leadership: external context and culture

...double loop’ learning. (MacBeath, 2008, p. 123) Note where you think your own organisation sits within the policy discourse prevalent at this time, and whether the leadership is more or less directive. Discussion A reason for supporting any policy initiative is that it may improve and tighten teaching and learning, especially for weaker teachers. A reason for not...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs