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Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system
Education & Development

Why there's still faith in the Spanish education system

...English edition of El País, the dire consequences of continuing to ignore the PISA results were underlined. The then state secretary for Education, Monserrat Gomendio, was quoted in an associated article on the presentation of the report; she said that what Spain needed was a “radical change in teaching methodology,” to move beyond “old-fashioned” models based...
Prifysgol y Plant – Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim
Education & Development

Prifysgol y Plant – Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim

...English. Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim Cymerwch gipolwg ar ddetholiad o gyrsiau isod, neu porwch trwy wefan OpenLearn fesul pwnc. Dysgwch am ein planed [Children Uni - Subject icons] Ydych chi’n awyddus i ddysgu mwy am y blaned sy’n gartref inni? Dewch i ddarganfod cyrsiau’n sôn am ecosystemau, daeargrynfeydd, daeareg, dŵr, y tywydd a mwy. Hefyd, mae yna gyrsiau’n...
Cyflwyniad i Bresgripsiynu Cymdeithasol Gwyrdd — Iechyd Meddwl ac Amgylchedd y Gweithle
Health, Sports & Psychology

Cyflwyniad i Bresgripsiynu Cymdeithasol Gwyrdd — Iechyd Meddwl ac Amgylchedd y Gweithle

...hefyd ar gael yn Saesneg. | This article is also available in English. Astudiaeth bellach gyda'r Brifysgol Agored: Mwy o gyfleoedd dysgu am ddim ar OpenLearn: Deunydd darllen pellach Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Trwsio’r meddwl – manteision ‘dos o natur’ ar gyfer iechyd meddwl Rhagnodi Cymdeithasol | Mind, the mental health charity - help for mental health problems...
What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?
History & The Arts

What did Voltaire think about Buddhism?

...English until the early nineteenth century. The Jesuits who wrote the reports and the scholars who read them did not recognize that the religions they encountered in China, Japan, Vietnam, and Thailand were somehow the same. Each had its own indigenous term for “Buddha” and each had its own artistic conventions for representing him. His portrayal as an idol and as a...
Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre
Science, Maths & Technology

Solving the perplexing mathematicians' problem of the spectre

...English mathematical physicist Roger Penrose. Penrose based his set of tiles on Pentagons, which are difficult to tile, even with other shapes. Penrose incorporated the same disruptive properties of the pentagon to create two tiles that form an aperiodic set. This set of Penrose tiles uses a thin rhombus and a fat rhombus. Ordinarily, rhombus-shaped tiles can be used to...
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...middle-aged, male and English) to the multicultural mix of today. Cinema might be the ‘dream factory’ or a culture industry of mere entertainment. It might be our rational, conscious, objective stories we tell ourselves, or our dreams and nightmares - but we always need these representations to help construct our identities, past and present, and to understand them....
Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women in sport: stories from grassroots cricket

...English women’s recreational cricket: a critique of the liberal “absorption” approach to gender equality’, Managing Sport and Leisure, 22(1), pp. 54–69. Moreshead, S. (2018) ‘Who on earth is The Hundred for? We try to identify the ECB's mysterious “new audience”', The Cricketer. Available at:
Psychological profiling
Health, Sports & Psychology

Psychological profiling

...English style of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L Sayers. In Chandler's case his model was Classical and Elizabethan tragedy. No coincidence his detective was called Marlowe - he was explicit about this in his essays. He thought only the detective genre could tackle the realities of modern life and the struggle for truth against compromise which true literature engaged....