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Essay and report writing skills
Education & Development

Essay and report writing skills

...data making notes thinking over your ideas. Planning Planning your assignment involves: working out an appropriate and logical structure identifying what is relevant and what is not taking account of the word limit refining your ideas selecting appropriate evidence or quotations. Drafting This stage comprises a single task: writing the assignment, perhaps with one or more...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Studying mammals: The social climbers
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: The social climbers

...data for infants at the top of the figure. Infant monkeys were observed calling in response to a bird on 24 separate occasions. The number of calls made in response to each of the species of bird shown were assigned to categories, shown by lines of different colours that are identified in the key at the bottom of the diagram. For example, the number of calls made by...
Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Engaging with our environment: what are the benefits?

...M.J., Gascon, M., Perez-Leon, D. and Mudu, P. (2019) ‘Green spaces and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies’, Lancet Planet Health, 3, pp. 469-77. Uebel, K., Marselle, M., Dean, A.J., Rhodes, J.R. and Bonn, A. (2021) ‘Urban green space soundscapes and their perceived restorativeness’, People and Nature, 3(3), pp. 756-69....
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Mortality: Analysis of Evidence from Plantation Records’, Social Science History, vol. 3, no. 3/4, pp. 86-114. Williams, E. (1944) Capitalism and Slavery, Penguin. Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679. Leviathan, Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1968, Leviathan.p65 (mcmaster.ca) Locke, John. 1993. Two Treatises of Government. Everyman. London, England: Phoenix Government...
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...Mottaleb, K. A. et al. (2019) ‘Spending privately for education in Nepal. who spends more on it and why?’ International Journal of Educational Development. Elsevier 69(C), pp. 39–47. Thapa, A. (2015) ‘Public and private school performance in Nepal: an analysis using the SLC examination’. Education economics, 23:1, pp. 47–62, DOI: 10.1080/09645292.2012.738809...
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...analysis – Defender Perhaps the apex of Gallagher’s hardboiled blues came with 1987’s Defender – as close to a concept album as he ever got – with each song portraying the sleazy underbelly of a city and offering a tough, realist look at the constant fight between morality and survival. [Album cover - Rory Gallagher, "Defender"] Album cover for Defender. Source:...
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...analysis of the social, cultural, historical and political influences from the wider context which impact on both learners’ participation and teachers’ practices (Tikly and Barrett, 2011). Thus learner failure and inequality are seen as primarily a result of specific practices within the institution or classroom...Exploring equality and equity in education: 5...
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...analysis of their viral genome indicates that all strains of influenza A originated from aquatic birds. By contrast, types B and C are mostly confined to humans. At any one time, a number of different strains of virus may be circulating in the human population. Box 1 Families, groups and strains of virus Viruses were originally classified into different groups according...
Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs