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Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...families, barring of access to Christianity and restrictions on cultural development. By 1670, slaves comprised of three-fifths of the Barbados population, and by 1700, three-quarters (Galensonn, 1982). [Front of Sunbury Plantation House, St Philip, Barbados]Sunbury plantation house, St Philip, Barbados. Built around 1660, the house is now an architectural museum....
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Play, learning and the brain
Education & Development

Play, learning and the brain

...Families, 2007) Next, click on the link below for the second article ‘What Is “Brain-Based Learning”?’, which looks in a little more detail at brain research and links this to learning and teaching. It suggests ways in which educators could enhance their practice by drawing on this new information. Look particularly at the Twelve Design Principles and at the ways...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Managing complexity: a systems approach
Society, Politics & Law

Managing complexity: a systems approach

...trees’. Systems thinking is precisely about changing the focus of attention to the wood, so that you can see the trees in their context. Understanding the woodland gives new and powerful insights about the trees. Such insights are completely inaccessible if one concentrates on the individual trees. Figure 1 illustrates this sort of shift of attention vividly. [Figure 1]...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places
Society, Politics & Law

‘Problem’ populations, ‘problem’ places

...family and personal lives, in their attitudes to work, and so on. Through such arguments poverty comes to be understood not as an outcome of the society in which we live, a product of state failure or of an inadequate welfare state, but as a consequence of ‘negative’ or ‘dysfunctional’ attitudes, behaviours and ways of life that necessitate control. People living...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Amanda Theunissen - Earth in Vision

...tree and all that but becoming increasingly cut off from it. Increasingly I find people interested in, especially young Americans, in simply starting their own channels. You do all the work yourself, you make films yourself, you put them on one of these tiny, tiny free channels and eventually, if you’re lucky, you attract enough advertising to pay you a bit of money to...
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Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...trees. To reverse this trend, the industry-backed Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil promotes practices for the increase of yields from existing palms, including use of fertilisers. Plantations signing up to the standards are certified by the RSPO, and big European food producers have committed to using only certified sustainable palm oil by about 2015. But most food...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...families. Using PARP inhibitor drugs in cancer cells that already lack BRCA1 or 2 knocks out their back-up repair system, leaving them fatally damaged. Cancer Research UK-funded scientists played a crucial role in the early development of PARP inhibitors, and the first of them, olaparib (Lynparza), has now been licensed for use within the EU for women with a certain type...
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
Languages

Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...Family, friends and teachers rush the stage to celebrate the new National Spanish Spelling Bee champion. He says he can’t wait to get back to school to tell his friends. “They are probably going to say, ‘Oh my god.’ They are going to be so very impressed.” And he’s already thinking about the defending his title in next year’s Spanish spelling bee. But he's...
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