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Learning, thinking and doing
Science, Maths & Technology

Learning, thinking and doing

...education. There is a national context in which an emphasis on ability to learn has come to prominence. It is now widely asserted that an ability to learn is as important an outcome of university study as knowledge of a discipline. This is a view put forward strongly by employers, for example, who have an interest in the employability of graduates and the skills they...
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Exploring critical social work practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring critical social work practice

...education. Involving people with lived experience can give prominence to elements of knowledge that are not always visible in academic publications and these insights can highlight how social work practice is experienced in everyday life. Hearing directly from people who have interacted with services can challenge assumptions and encourage students to reflect on how their...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Understanding society: families
Education & Development

Understanding society: families

...Education, Childhood & Youth...Understanding society: Families: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an awareness of some of the debates and key concepts involved in the study of family life; show the connectedness that has developed over time between the work men and women do inside the home and women's role in paid...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Women and Workplace Struggles: Scotland 1900-2022

...education and other areas of policy implementation in Scotland. Throughout the twentieth century, housing, health, social services and other sectors came under the auspices of the Scotland Office in London. Devolution shifted responsibility to the reconvened Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh in 1999 and along with this a range of other areas of public services were classed...
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Article 10 mins
Supporting and developing resilience in social work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting and developing resilience in social work

...educational preparation of practitioners. The concept of emotional resilience may be familiar to you in relation to children and adult service users (Gilligan, 2009; Smith and Hollinger-Smith, 2015). Simply defined, it refers to people’s capacity to constructively protect themselves – and rebound – from stress. In the workplace, stress is ‘the adverse reaction...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion: Introduction - In early 2020, the higher education (HE) sector had to react to unprecedented change and uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 global pandemic. The so-called ‘pivot to online’ (Salmon, 2020) forced emergency ways of working on university campus-based staff in an...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Hybrid working: organisational development
Money & Business

Hybrid working: organisational development

...education institutes (HEIs) sector and how this accelerates working practices for hybrid. You will also start to create habits to continue to future-proof your organisation, and consider future ways of working that may arise and how to prepare for them...The COVID-19 pandemic caused many organisations to go into warp speed and pivot their workforce to remote working...
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Level 1: Introductory 21 hrs
Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners
History & The Arts

Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners

...education or training, anxious about our future. Some of us had shown great promise at school, but now we were stuck, most of our parents could not pay for our further education and there were no national projects to employ us. And here we were, hating the place we loved, because it was on the verge of choking us to death. This was the state of the Caribbean at that time....
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs