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The Valentine's rose trade story in a dozen roses
Nature & Environment

The Valentine's rose trade story in a dozen roses

...technology such as hydroponics]Would this huge international trade in roses be much smaller if we celebrated St. Valentine's day in summer? Show description Infographic looking at the global rose trade. £2.5 billion market value (2024), Fresh cut roses have a 22.7% share of the floriculture market (2025). 95% of supply is controlled by The Netherlands, Ecuador, Colombia,...
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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...educational, health and economic outcomes and experiences vary a great deal in the US and England and Wales based on race. However, they are also based on the intersection of multiple identities and social characterisations (class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, ability/disability) that confer different experiences of advantage/disadvantage,...
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...education?...Why teach art?: 3. Responding to criticisms - A government minister and a school governor made the following comments, respectively: ‘Art is the icing on the cake.’ ‘We have children here who can't even speak English properly – they should be doing more of that instead of leisure subjects like art.’ Both of these are, as you may appreciate,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...educational and intellectual functioning in young autistic children’, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, vol. 55, pp. 3–9. Mukhopadhyay, T. R. (2000) Beyond the Silence: My Life, the World and Autism, London, National Autistic Society. Rimland, B. (1964) Infantile Autism: the Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behaviour, Edelson, S....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Science, Maths & Technology

Returning to STEM

...technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)...Welcome to the free badged course, Returning to STEM. This course is here to help you get back to work in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics. The course is intended for anyone who wants to get back into STEM work after having a break, whether to care for family, because of redundancy or for other reasons. Watch...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...education in 18th Century Britain and America...John Cannon, a teenaged agricultural laborer, bought a book called Aristotle’s Masterpiece for a shilling in 1700. He usually read chapbooks like Fortunatus and Dr Faustus, but he bought the Masterpiece in order to “pry into the Secrets of Nature especially of the female sex” — to find out about sex. What he learned...
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Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers
Education & Development

Reading and motivation: focusing on disengaged readers

...educators, who are readers in their personal lives and teachers of reading in their professional lives, constantly reflect on reading and being a reader in order to enrich their provision and more effectively nurture recreational reading (Cremin et al., 2022). However, even for Reading Teachers, motivating disengaged readers is not easy. Some of these young people will...
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Machines, minds and computers
Digital & Computing

Machines, minds and computers

...technologies and at our dream of building machines that share our special human features and powers – particularly our mental abilities. Minds – Here, we'll explore the development of the idea that human thought might be a form of computation, from its origins in the 17th century, through the advent of the digital computer in the 20th, and into the Cybernetics and...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs