CPD Event Calendar
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Education CPD Events in February 2018
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Presentation Skills
1st Feb 2018 09:00 | Cosensa Learning & Development
This Presentation Skills training course is designed to help delegates prepare effective, interesting and memorable presentations using a range of different techniques. By the end of this course delegates will understand how to assess and choose the right presentation techniques and tools for the occasion; channel nervous energy positively; develop excellent oratory techniques and effectively use body language for emphasis and also know how to inspire the audience and instil confidence.
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Nursery World Show
2nd Feb 2018 10:00 | MA Education
Two-day programme of 20 hour-long professional seminars and two half-day expert-led masterclasses on early years and childcare practice.
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Creating a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom
6th Feb 2018 09:00 | Ascentis
This training will explore the strengths and difficulties of a Dyslexic profile and investigate effective strategies to employ within the classroom for learners with Dyslexia. Training is suitable for SENCo’s; HLTA’s; Head Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers.
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Anti-Bullying Ambassadors Training for Staff and Students
6th Feb 2018 09:00 | The Diana Award
Through Anti-Bullying Ambassadors training; The Diana Award equips young people; staff and parents to effectively tackle bullying in their schools; communities and online. This peer-to-peer training empowers attendees with the knowledge; skills and confidence to reduce bullying; and is often highlighted by Ofsted as best practice in whole-school approaches to anti-bullying.
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Anti-Bullying Ambassadors Training for Staff and Students
7th Feb 2018 09:00 | The Diana Award
Through Anti-Bullying Ambassadors training; The Diana Award equips young people; staff and parents to effectively tackle bullying in their schools; communities and online. This peer-to-peer training empowers attendees with the knowledge; skills and confidence to reduce bullying; and is often highlighted by Ofsted as best practice in whole-school approaches to anti-bullying.
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Presentation Skills
8th Feb 2018 09:00 | Cosensa Learning & Development
This Presentation Skills training course is designed to help delegates prepare effective, interesting and memorable presentations using a range of different techniques. By the end of this course delegates will understand how to assess and choose the right presentation techniques and tools for the occasion; channel nervous energy positively; develop excellent oratory techniques and effectively use body language for emphasis and also know how to inspire the audience and instil confidence.
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Creating a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom
8th Feb 2018 09:00 | Ascentis
This training will explore the strengths and difficulties of a Dyslexic profile and investigate effective strategies to employ within the classroom for learners with Dyslexia. Training is suitable for SENCo’s; HLTA’s; Head Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers.
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Academic Freedom and the New Populism
8th Feb 2018 18:30 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
A new ‘populism’ is evident in a variety of countries. Experts and expertise are attacked as standing in the way of the popular will. Universities are under new pressures from populist politicians. How should these pressures be resisted?
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Introduction to Cluster Analysis
9th Feb 2018 09:30 | University of Manchester
The course covers cluster analysis concepts and methods in SPSS. It is aimed at those with an interest in developing practical skills to implement clustering techniques and those with an interest in area typologies and classifications.
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Working with bereaved teenagers
9th Feb 2018 10:00 | Child Bereavement UK
Understand more about teenage responses to grief to help you communicate with them and provide appropriate support.
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Working with bereaved teenagers
9th Feb 2018 10:00 | Child Bereavement UK
Understand more about teenage responses to grief to help you communicate with them and provide appropriate support.
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At the Limits of Urban Theory: racial banishment in the contemporary city
13th Feb 2018 18:45 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
In cities around the world especially in the United States; processes of socio-spatial restructuring continue to unfold. Often understood as neoliberal urbanism and often identified through concepts such as gentrification; these processes entail the displacement of subaltern classes to the far edges of urban life. In this talk Ananya Roy argues that it is necessary to analyse such transformations through a theorisation of racial capitalism.
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Presentation Skills
15th Feb 2018 09:00 | Cosensa Learning & Development
This Presentation Skills training course is designed to help delegates prepare effective, interesting and memorable presentations using a range of different techniques. By the end of this course delegates will understand how to assess and choose the right presentation techniques and tools for the occasion; channel nervous energy positively; develop excellent oratory techniques and effectively use body language for emphasis and also know how to inspire the audience and instil confidence.
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Assertiveness at Work
20th Feb 2018 09:00 | Cosensa Learning & Development
This comprehensive one day assertiveness training course is designed to enable delegates to use a more confident approach when developing productive working relationships. “Assertiveness at Work” defines assertive behaviour and shows how assertiveness can assist in dealing with others and different situations. It encourages delegates to take responsibility for their own development; enables them to communicate with more confidence; develop positive and assertive responses to a wide range of situations.
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Assertiveness at Work
20th Feb 2018 09:00 | Cosensa Learning & Development
This comprehensive one day assertiveness training course is designed to enable delegates to use a more confident approach when developing productive working relationships. “Assertiveness at Work” defines assertive behaviour and shows how assertiveness can assist in dealing with others and different situations. It encourages delegates to take responsibility for their own development; enables them to communicate with more confidence; develop positive and assertive responses to a wide range of situations.
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Bridging the Gap: social mobility; university and access to careers
20th Feb 2018 18:15 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
In public policy; university has often been seen as a one-stop shop for social mobility. Recent research; though; shows that a student’s background before entering university affects their destination once they graduate. Students from ‘disadvantaged’ backgrounds earn less and have less access to the ‘traditional’ professions than their peers from a more advantaged background; even controlling for degree outcome.
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Education and the Giant of Ignorance
21st Feb 2018 17:30 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
Ignorance; though one of the Giants; was barely mentioned in the Beveridge Report; but addressed by the 1944 Education Act and 1963 Robbins Report. This panel identifies gaps that have emerged and ways to fill them; focussing particularly on equality of opportunity.
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Is Higher Education Good for You?
21st Feb 2018 19:30 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
There is increasing evidence from the UK and the US to show that higher education is associated with less happiness and more inequality. In light of this; Professor of Behavioural Science at LSE Paul Dolan argues that the government should reduce funding to higher education and prioritise early years education instead. Former Minister for Universities David Willetts stands up for the value of a university degree.
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Presentation Skills
22nd Feb 2018 09:00 | Cosensa Learning & Development
This Presentation Skills training course is designed to help delegates prepare effective, interesting and memorable presentations using a range of different techniques. By the end of this course delegates will understand how to assess and choose the right presentation techniques and tools for the occasion; channel nervous energy positively; develop excellent oratory techniques and effectively use body language for emphasis and also know how to inspire the audience and instil confidence.
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Multilevel Modelling
22nd Feb 2018 09:30 | University of Manchester
This one-day course begins with a description of some examples where multilevel models are useful in statistical analysis and some examples of multilevel populations. We then cover the basic theory of multilevel models including random intercept and random slope specifications; the use of contextual variables in multilevel analysis and modelling repeated measures. This course is suitable for social scientists who want to learn about a quantitative technique that allows both individual and group level variations to be simultaneously taken into account when modelling social phenomena
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Creative ways of working with bereaved children
22nd Feb 2018 10:00 | Child Bereavement UK
Explore creative ways of helping children express themselves and communicate when someone important in their life is dying or has died.
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Creative ways of working with bereaved children
22nd Feb 2018 10:00 | Child Bereavement UK
Explore creative ways of helping children express themselves and communicate when someone important in their life is dying or has died.
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A Beveridge Plan for an Unruly School? William Beveridge and LSE
23rd Feb 2018 13:15 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
There have been many famous Directors of LSE; from Halford Mackinder to Ralph Dahrendorf. But none can lay claim to such fame as LSE’s fourth Director; William Beveridge – generally regarded as the main architect of the Welfare State and the energetic visionary who oversaw a major expansion of LSE from 1919-1937.
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The Academies Event 2018: The future of state schooling
28th Feb 2018 09:00 | Salford Professional Development
Join us for The Academies Event 2018 for unique insights into the major developments in the education sector and what the future holds for schools and academies as they plan for the future and strive to deliver a fair and consistent education for all pupils.
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Creating a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom
28th Feb 2018 09:00 | Ascentis
This training will explore the strengths and difficulties of a Dyslexic profile and investigate effective strategies to employ within the classroom for learners with Dyslexia. Training is suitable for SENCo’s; HLTA’s; Head Teachers and Deputy Head Teachers.
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School Autonomy; School Choice and the Quality of Education: evidence from England
28th Feb 2018 18:30 | The London School of Economics and Political Science
This inaugural lecture by Olmo Silva will discuss the conceptual framework which underpins the idea that autonomy and choice can deliver improvements in education standards and will look at some of the most recent empirical evidence.
