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Understanding water quality
Nature & Environment

Understanding water quality

...class of rivers is generally B, good. This compares well with the national average; 65% of English rivers fall into Classes A, B and C in Table 2. On an international scale, cleaning up polluted rivers or lakes is more complicated when they pass through more than one country. For example, the River Rhine has parts of its catchment in eight countries, and an almost total...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom of society. This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution. This ancient faith...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Freeing people caught between life and death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Freeing people caught between life and death

...classed as being fully conscious and locked-in. The establishment was doggedly opposed. “You cannot imagine the environment in the late 1990s,” says Schiff. “The hostility we encountered went well beyond simple scepticism.” Looking back, Laureys pauses and smiles thinly: “Medical doctors do not like to be told they are wrong.” Schiff, Laureys and Owen cut...
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...classes, partly as rise in literacy fostered by the education reforms of the late nineteenth century, but it also saw, for the first time, reading habits reflect the opening of new professional horizons, traditionally thought of as male, on account of the mass mobilisation of the war effort (for a good summary of this within the broader context, see McAleer, 1992, pp....
Working mathematically
Science, Maths & Technology

Working mathematically

...classes that lack motivation lack of time needed to present the subject in such a way that even the weakest learners can appreciate some of the fun, pattern and power heavy marking load record-keeping having to teach learners who spoil, or attempt to spoil, the learning experience for others in the class when too much pressure is put on learners (often from parents) to...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...class or aromatherapy, but less keen on organised religion. In fact, many are probably just indifferent – religion is just not particularly relevant to their lives. So ‘no religion’ doesn’t necessarily equate with ‘goodbye religion’. In fact, when we dig down, religious identity, commitment and practice are complex. Someone might tick a box in the census, but...
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...classes, I came and helped him because when he dies, we are going to represent him, so that the work will not go off. It exists. So we have to follow him by his rules, his laws, any order he give to us, we have to obey. Because he is the boss. When he say, ….. again, nobody will help us. How do makers of Adinkra train?...Textiles in Ghana: 3.5 What can we learn? - The...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
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Education & Development

Supporting children's mental health and wellbeing

...class of 30 are likely to have asthma. Eczema is thought to affect 11% of young children and the number of children with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes is also increasing. Chronic conditions can have a profound impact on children’s lives; for instance, they may have dietary restrictions, or they may need to use inhalers or other medications, such as injections, to manage...