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EPQs: designing your research question
Education & Development

EPQs: designing your research question

...think is important. It is equivalent to an A-level qualification. These articles are designed to help you if you are enrolled on an EPQ. Why do research? Pause for a moment and think about this. You could think about this on your own, or you could talk to friends, colleagues in the same class, or your family. Perhaps there’s something that you’re already very...
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Article 5 mins
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...systems in the UK and opportunities for learning and teaching beyond the school gates...Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the different aims of primary education today articulate different ways in which learners are supported in primary school demonstrate an...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit's two tribes: can they be brought together?

...think supporting a democratic vote is more important than sticking to my principles. Perhaps the best I can do is channel Groucho Marx's maxim that of course I have principles, but if they don't fit the occasion, I can always find new ones. One thing seems certain: Brexit, in one form or another, is going to happen. Quite what Brexit will mean in practice is incredibly...
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Article 10 mins
Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction
History & The Arts

Minds and mental phenomena: an introduction

...thinking, reasoning and knowing – in short, they have the capacity for rational thought and action. But just which animals fall into the category of sapience is a vexing question. Certainly human animals are sapient – we dignify our species with the name Homo sapiens, after all. But is anything else sapient? What about birds, dogs, apes and dolphins? There seems...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...think about the experiences of different groups of people in the past and to understand how historians use textual and visual sources to uncover diverse histories to help you think about how racist structures operated in the past, and how these structures often rested on perceptions of difference based on race, ethnicity and religious expression to help you recognise how...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview
Society, Politics & Law

Eric King and Bill Binney: Some thoughts on their interview

...systems experts, to know that this is exactly how both public and private sector bureaucracies do behave. The driving forces in the DNA of every bureaucracy are the twin desires for survival and growth. When you divide complex, deeply interconnected and interdependent public service systems up into competing quasi-autonomous silos - some bigger and more glamorous than...
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What does the US election mean for Europe?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the US election mean for Europe?

...system. But, even if true, the effect on voting for US Senators – what Americans refer to as “down-ballot voting” – could be significant. Faced with this continuously raucous process, relatively few Americans – beyond each candidate’s transition teams – have spent much time contemplating what will happen on 9 November. And most of that discussion in the...
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Article 10 mins
The science of sleep
Health, Sports & Psychology

The science of sleep

...system. This effect 'locks us in' to the natural twenty four hour day. There have been experiments performed where people have been cut off from knowledge of the true passage of time, and denied access to daylight - in one case this was done in a pot-hole. The people still showed a cycle in the hormone levels, but without the daylight to keep it in time, most people's...
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