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Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia
Nature & Environment

Sue Edwards: a life dedicated to flora and sustainable development in Ethiopia

...projects, which in her later career were based at the Institute for Sustainable Development, where she was a director. In her 50 years of dedicated service to Ethiopia and Eritrea, she had made massive contribution to botany, from field collection of herbaria to editing the 8 volume, 9000 species rich Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea, a work which took 29 years. But it was...
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Article 15 hrs 45 mins
Representations of hell in Christian art
History & The Arts

Representations of hell in Christian art

...project entitled Damned in Hell in the Frescoes of Venetian-dominated Crete (13th-17th centuries), at The Open University, department of Art History (lead investigator: Angeliki Lymberopoulou). The outcome of this research will appear in a two-volume publication by Cambridge University Press: Hell in the Byzantine World: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to the trauma-informed investigation of rape and serious sexual offences article series
Society, Politics & Law

Introduction to the trauma-informed investigation of rape and serious sexual offences article series

...project, known as ‘Operation Soteria Bluestone’, exploring a number of different aspects of rape and serious sexual offences (RASSO) investigation. The focus of the work for the CPRL was officer learning, development and wellbeing. Essentially the team explored the way in which the officers who investigate RASSO receive learning, continuing professional development...
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Article 5 mins
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...projects and initiatives to encourage group talk and spontaneous student language in the classroom and the next activity will give you some ideas for promoting student dialogue and encouraging them to speak in the target language more than you as the teacher. Activity 3 Timing: Allow about 1 hour Watch the video clip ‘MFL – implementing the group talk initiative and...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Systems modelling
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems modelling

...manage. You believe the situation involves more than just a single process like the manufacture of a product such as concrete, or a cake, where the properties of the product can be altered in a predictable way by changing the ingredients or the processing used. It is likely to be a situation in which there is more than one person involved and where the result of any...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Richard Tol - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Richard Tol - Stories of Change

...Project forward to 2100: how optimistic are you that we've got this problem manageable? RT: I'm reasonably optimistic … I mean there's clear dangers out there with climate change but as I said, most of these dangers have to do with underdevelopment and if by 2100 large parts of the world are still underdeveloped then I think that is their bigger problem than...
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Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers
Education & Development

Free employability and training courses to support your Kickstart Scheme journey – for candidates and employers

...managing money. We also offer courses in improving a learner’s basic maths and English and advice in writing CV’s and attending interviews to help Kickstart employees into sustainable employment should they progress permanently into an organisation from their existing Kickstart placement or need support for their next job or learning opportunity. [Lady working by a...
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Article 5 mins
The Arch Never Sleeps
Science, Maths & Technology

The Arch Never Sleeps

...managed forces within the stonework at Ely cathedral to extend an outer wall. Forces in Masonry: Ely Professor Francis Evans takes Hooke's theory of arches, and explains that the forces at work witin an arch are the same as those in domes. Flying Butresses at Chartres The butresses at Chartres Cathedral are examined. Mathematic models describe how and why the top tier of...
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Audio 30 mins