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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...education, aptitude, teaching program, language proximity or access to interactional opportunities. Language learning is not at all a simple task and most people readily forget that it takes about twelve years to learn your first language. The first five or six years from birth are devoted to acquiring oral fluency and then another six years or so are needed to learn how...
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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...educational and employment life-course opportunities. [A photograph of the bottom half of six people standing in a line. In front of them is the text: youth.] Between 2010/11 and 2018/19 there has been almost a billion pounds of funding cuts to youth services, some areas in England and Wales now have no funding (YMCA, 2020). Youth transitions are longer, less stable –...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...technology, but this was mostly limited to the prosperous who could afford it for their home movies - like the predominantly middle-class London Film Society. But other voices did enter the scene such as trade unions in the 30s, with the communist Federation of Workers Film Societies’ attempts to counter the official ideology of the National Government, or the Labour...
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Article 10 mins
Sustainable innovations in enterprises
Money & Business

Sustainable innovations in enterprises

...technology and engineering; health & social care. The course also evaluates three methods for measuring the societal impacts of sustainable innovations. Learners are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences of cases where sustainable innovations drive success or failures in enterprises and how the positive impacts on society can be evaluated and sustained...This...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter
Society, Politics & Law

Coping on the Coast: moral economies and liminality at the heart of things that matter

...education and a strong sense of national identity, and these factors interplay with the social hierarchies of its political and government structures. However, there are common risks and constraining factors beyond the moral economies I have been talking about. Some were perceived by the villagers, others were identified by the research team. Of the projects instigated by...
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Video 15 mins
Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?
Education & Development

Do challenges make learning more fulfilling - or off-putting?

...educational achievement - but what is motivation? If we understand motivation a little better, we might get better at helping students to succeed...[Giving up - an image by Dee Ashley] give.up by DeeAshley Did you get where you intended to in life? Are you as healthy, wealthy and wise as you want to be? If not, perhaps the problem is a lack of motivation. Some studies...
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Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proud of nursing associates: who they are and why they are important

...Education England, HEE, 2017) and is regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Professional regulators ensure that their registrants are fit to practise in their profession. Unlike non-registrants, such as healthcare support workers, registrants are accountable to the NMC which means they need to be able to account for their actions or omissions and abide by a...
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Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery
History & The Arts

Scotland’s links with Caribbean slavery

...educational authority, told my mother that I had to complete school because I was one month short of my fifteenth birthday. The local school said I was “educationally sub-normal” and I was sent to the local Secondary Modern School where I was accepted. Before I left secondary school, the headmaster of the local grammar school offered me a place, not on my academic...
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