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Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

Teamwork: an introduction for school governors (Wales)

...data (including in-year progress tracking data) so we can properly hold school leaders to account? Do governors regularly visit the school to get to know it and monitor the implementation of the school strategy? How well does our policy review schedule work and how do we ensure compliance? Do we know how effective performance management of all staff is within the school?...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...data hub, which draws together city datasets relevant to city functions to develop smart innovative solutions across transport, energy, water, enterprise, citizen engagement and education. [Described image] Figure 4: A Virtual Reality view of Milton Keynes, north-east from the railway station towards the city centre, which has been identified for urban transformation...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...Data in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation is an example. As viewers well know, various comic moments are created by Data's superior intelligence and rationality but absence of emotions. Moreover, it is often said that even the most complex machine is in principle incapable of imagination and creativity: a computer, for example, could never invent...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Moons of our Solar System Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Moons of our Solar System

...analysis of lunar and terrestrial basalt PDF gives you a table of data that shows the composition of two basalt samples, analysed using sophisticated X-ray fluorescence spectrometry in laboratories on Earth. The totals lie close to 100%, although not exactly, because there are small errors in the analysis of each element, shown as its oxide. Both the analyses totals shown...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
The social nature of being human
Society, Politics & Law

The social nature of being human

...data? Discussion There are many questions that you can ask and you can interrogate this event from many angles. One angle we will now focus on concerns not the event itself (i.e., the interruption of the concert) but the way it is represented by the BBC. After all, the video is quite obviously an edited material. And as such, it will not simply represent an event but will...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...data from British Plastics Federation Figure 1 Growth in demand for polymers in the UK, 1980–2000. [Figure 2] Source: data from BPF Statistics, 1995 Figure 2 UK plastics applications 1995...Introduction to polymers: 1.2 Polymer types - Traditionally, the industry has produced two main types of synthetic polymer – plastics and rubbers (Figure 3). The distinction is...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care
Nature & Environment

Embodied Carbon: Three reasons we should care

...from Policy to Practice, p. 10. Zhang, X. and Wang, F. (2017) ‘Analysis of embodied carbon in the building life cycle considering the temporal perspectives of emissions: A case study in China’, Energy and Buildings, vol. 155, pp. 404–413 [Online]. DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2017.09.049. Disclaimer: no windows or window salesman were harmed in the making of this article....
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Article 10 mins
Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Tokyo 2020 in 2021: Do the best things come to those who wait?

...analysis', European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 271(2), pp. 223-234. Klosok, A. and Church, B. (2020) Athletes come to terms with 'heartbreaking' Tokyo 2020 postponement. Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/25/sport/athletes-reaction-tokyo-2020-olympics-postpone-spt-intl/index.html (Accessed: 12 July 2021). Mon-López, D., García-Aliaga,...
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