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More or Less: interview with Tim Harford
Science, Maths & Technology

More or Less: interview with Tim Harford

...simple stuff. So I don’t think there’s a consistent aim in everything we do. We are a magazine format. But we certainly believe that a lot of the statistical takedowns that we do, you could do yourself at home without any particular statistical training. It might take a Google search or two, often not even that. Just a little bit of common sense and ask yourself some...
Paul Williams - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Paul Williams - Earth in Vision

...simple for somebody to take that programme and put it online and share it however they want to. So we can try and fight that and we do, organisations, television broadcasters fight that, they have a team of lawyers who constantly search online, they search YouTube and they are forever putting in claims of copyright against people who are sharing the programmes on their...
Looking at population data
Society, Politics & Law

Looking at population data

...simple text file in the CSV format that you can then load into a spreadsheet or other data analysis tool. The UN Data Explorer also links to various other population related datasets: UN Population Division (UNPD) World Population Prospects UN Statistics Division (UNSD) Demographic Statistics By looking at population and demographic data from a variety of perspectives, we...
History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee

...simple online contribution form, here...History of reading tutorial 3: Famous writers and their reading - Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Vernon Lee: Further reading - Colby, Vineta. Vernon Lee: A Literary Biography (University of Virginia Press, 2003). Donaldson, Sandra, The Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 5 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2010). The Harold Acton...
Am I ready to be a distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be a distance learner?

...simple interactive steps to refresh your approach to learning. You will explore useful study skills, time management, assessment, becoming digitally ready, and effective engagement with course materials. You will complete the course with an exercise to enable you to reflect on your readiness to be a distance learner. After studying this course you should be able to:...
Engendering citizenship
Society, Politics & Law

Engendering citizenship

...simple one, which I found my students were quite surprised by, but very interested by, was the question of public transport, they hadn’t thought of that as a woman’s issue. But when I gave them some reading around the, you know, A) that women have less access to private transport, when they thought about their own lives, about sometimes being afraid to go out at night...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...simple claims, such as it was too cold in Canada for the Indians or that they were culturally unsuited to Canada, you know, these commonsensical kinds of objections and closed, of course, in this is, in fact, the best for the Indians themselves. So always looking out for our brothers and sisters across the way. But of course, this has no legal basis. You know, if people...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...code of behaviour, which operates within the school. Ann can I ask you first, what issues did you feel were raised by that programme? Ann Phoenix For me the most striking issue that emerged from the programme was that if you treat children seriously, take their views seriously, and really seek to include them in decision making, that they are able very sophisticatedly to...
Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr