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Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...everyday life. Some people have been dealing with their wounds for five years. “Compared to a large, weeping, infected wound, a bunch of baby flies aren’t that bad,” he says. Maggots should only be used to treat wounds under medical supervision, using sterile therapeutic maggots. * The patient’s name has been changed. This article was originally published by...
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Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...English weren’t interested in anything that was happening in America. So we fell between two stools and we failed. Since ‘Nature’ came off air has the BBC succeeded in covering the environment? It’s played out very badly for it, and you can judge the result by the numbers of environmental programmes after Nature, almost zero. I was once at a conference with a...
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Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...English, mathematics and science in their first two years of secondary education, the curriculum remained highly gendered for most pupils. Girls were expected to learn the domestic skills of cooking, sewing and housekeeping. Alternatively, they could choose ‘commercial’ subjects such as typing and accounting, as these were the types of jobs most women could expect to...
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Article 10 mins
Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company
History & The Arts

Hero and villain: Robert Clive of the East India Company

...English crown in 1600. It possessed its own private army, which it used to wage war to support its aim – to generate profits for its shareholders in London. The victory of Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey, in 1757, enabled the EIC, the most ‘advanced capitalist organisation in the world’, to control Bengal, the wealthiest region in the world. Bengal’s wealth...
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Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...everyday life preoccupy most people to such an extent that thinking about climate change becomes fleeting. Which, if any, of these mechanisms of denial can you apply to your example from Part 1? Paul Hoggett points out that ‘the life of the mind and the life of society bear an uncanny resemblance … all of us have learnt how not to think too much, how to make peace...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It
History & The Arts

Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It

...English literature from Shakespeare to Austen...Reading Shakespeare's As You Like It: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: demonstrate an understanding of some of the key speeches and scenes in Shakespeare’s As You Like It appreciate the importance and complexity of role-play in As You Like It appreciate the varied uses of language in a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...English provided in the grid. Nom Réponse en français (the French national celebration) (a lot of noise) (a day off) (the values of the French Revolution) (a general sense of excitement in the towns and cities) (a bloody episode in our history) (not a lot) (the storming of the Bastille) (something to do with the army) (Paris and France) (a sense of freedom) Words: 0...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)
Education & Development

An introduction to leadership for school governors (Wales)

...English and Welsh), ICT skills, and numeracy (including higher-order thinking and reasoning skills) make sure that staff’s continuous professional development improves the quality of provision and outcomes for pupils ensure that all staff (especially those in management roles) are accountable for their areas of work ensure that self-evaluation outcomes derive from...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs