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Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...system in which everyone types and reads text. In addition, people’s disabilities are not necessarily visible in online communication systems; so disabled people do not have to declare their disability and are not perceived as being different. The demand from disabled students may be sufficient justification for meeting their needs, but there are three main factors that...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
What is climate psychology?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is climate psychology?

...systems thinking and ecopsychology, all in the service of unpicking our collective and individual responses to the crisis, much of which is unacknowledged and unconscious. Climate Psychology aims to contribute by: Building understanding and support for individuals and groups Enabling transformation and adaptation Helping us to cope with the consequences of the climate and...
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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...system. In 2015 the Scottish Qualificiations Authority has admitted the new Higher Maths exam ‘was too hard’ . Tests need to be comparable, there has to be confidence that every person getting say, an A* at GCSE has reached the same threshold. We know that that’s not as straightforward as it sounds. Every year in August, there’s debate around the standards of this...
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Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in
Health, Sports & Psychology

Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in

...systems like family and school, where parents and teachers play a huge role in teaching children Riley’s age how to mediate their feelings. Most 11-year-olds can tell you that they have feelings – and can name a few (though most would not name Disgust) – but more often than not, these feelings can overwhelm them. Adults, then, help them understand and make sense of...
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The 2016 race enters the home straight
Society, Politics & Law

The 2016 race enters the home straight

...system, however, the national polling average is not as valuable as individual state polling. It’s the states, not the whole country, that decide the election. To be elected president, a candidate must win more than 269 electoral votes, which are apportioned to the individual states based on the size of their delegations to Congress. With the exceptions of Maine and...
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What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development
Society, Politics & Law

What Brexit and Trump mean for Global Justice and International Development

...systemic crises of capitalism, such as environmental degradation and the alarming growth in poverty and inequality within nation-states. As a result of this failure, powerful economic elites came to completely control politics through lobbying and corruption. In the US the so called political establishment, expressed in the shape of Democrat candidate Hilary Clinton,...
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Why is scientific research part of emergency response?
Science, Maths & Technology

Why is scientific research part of emergency response?

...systems in countries where the charity works. “Wherever we’re working, we’re never working in a vacuum,” she told me. “We generally try to cooperate and work with ministries of health – share our information so it can feed into the bigger picture the ministry is responsible for providing. And we cooperate in that with other medical organisations.” Hawkins...
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Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job
Society, Politics & Law

Protecting Landscapes and Creating the Right Tools for the Job

...Systems (GIS) to create a map divided into differently shaded areas that indicate the number of such features within them. However as well as quantifying the landscape in this way, the section also attempts to document its ‘special and evocative qualities’. Similarly, the ‘landscape areas’ section of the toolkit seeks to quantify land use and structural...
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