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Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...economic classes, ethnic groups or gender (Pullin, 1993; Cooper, 1998). Equity issues are particularly important when assessment results are used to label students or deny them access to courses or careers in the future. Research shows that working-class children: … go into lower sets … … are set less challenging test items … … and therefore they have to answer...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Reading communities: why, what and how?
Education & Development

Reading communities: why, what and how?

...Cremin, T., Harris, D. & Chamberlain, L. (2018) ‘Pedagogy for reading for pleasure in low socio-economic primary schools: beyond ‘pedagogy of poverty’?’ Literacy 52 (2):86-94. McGrane, J., Stiff, J., Baird, J., Lenkeit, J. & Hopfenbeck-Oxford, T. (2017) Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS): National Report for England Department for Education....
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Article 10 mins
Influence of temperament
Education & Development

Influence of temperament

...economic pressures will be influencing the decision to work outside the home. However, in addition they suggest that there could be two plausible routes whereby difficult temperament could influence mothers’ decisions on whether to work outside the home. The first could be that mothers find the problems of rearing the child with difficult temperament too aversive and...
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Article 15 mins
Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology
Education & Development

Little white lies: Whiteness, reflexivity, race and criminology

...economic, extractive, exploitative social relationship. Race, according to Avery Gordon (2008), is a haunting presence in our personal lives and social relations because its effects are everywhere felt but nowhere specified: the machinery moves while the engine ise declared dead. Black Caribbean pupils are more than three times more likely to be permanently excluded from...
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Video 30 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...economic justice’. Simon Nkoli26 November 1957 – 30 November 1998 I am black and I am gay. I cannot separate the two parts of me into secondary or primary struggles … So when I fight for my freedom I must fight against both oppressions. All those who believe in a democratic South African must fight against all oppression, all intolerance, all injustice. [A...
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Article 20 mins
An overview of wound care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An overview of wound care

...economically developed regions of the world, the WHO launched ‘Clean Care is Safer Care’ in 2005. This campaign promoted best hand hygiene practices around the world throughout healthcare provision, based on evidence clearly demonstrating hand hygiene as the primary measure in reducing HCAI and ensuring the safety of service users (WHO, 2011b). In 2015, WHO further...
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Article 1 hr
Stakeholders in marketing and finance
Money & Business

Stakeholders in marketing and finance

...economic development, competition, regulation and/or employment policies Context for their own remuneration Employees Lenders/financiers Local communities Future job prospects Repayments and interest on loans or investment* Source of local employment, or of local pollution or congestion Comparison with conditions in other organizations Management board/governors Suppliers...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
An introduction to public leadership
Money & Business

An introduction to public leadership

...economic activity for those countries that produce drugs currently. And all that before you actually get to the police service and what it does to both educate and inform and also enforce drugs policy. FRANCIS HABGOOD I'm one of 43, at least, chief constables for 43 home office forces within England and Wales. And so although I have responsibility, accountability and...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs