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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...technological realities of learning and studying. Three approaches, or a mixture of them, may help us to solve the dilemma: It is essential there are clear definitions of what constitutes good and acceptable academic practice in the respective assessment context. Rules for the uses of translation tools and citations, and established formal policies regarding student use...
British Science Week
Science, Maths & Technology

British Science Week

...technology, engineering and maths events and activities across the UK for people of all ages, coordinated by the British Science Association. To find out what is going on across the UK to celebrate, visit the British Science Week Event Calendar and keep up to date by following British Science Week on Twitter. To celebrate we have compiled a range of FREE resources for you...
Article 1 hr 30 mins
Meet the ThrustWSH project team
Science, Maths & Technology

Meet the ThrustWSH project team

...technology is and why the team are so excited about it? Listen again to Butch who tells us why hydrofoils are so important for the success of this project and how they make the boat safer at high speeds. You also meet Colin Hales who is an aeronautical engineer. He explains the similarities between super-cavitating foils and supersonic aircraft wings, albeit that...
How can Facebook decide who you really are?
Science, Maths & Technology

How can Facebook decide who you really are?

...technologies or on reports from the “Facebook community,” but that concept is a bit like McDonald’s declaring itself a “community of hamburger eaters.” There is nothing in particular that ties Facebook users together, aside from a basic, unremarkable pleasure that human beings take in connecting with one another. And Facebook does not have terms of use—it has...
Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair
Education & Development

Afrodite: Untangling the Routes of Black Women’s Hair

...education and in society in general. Lurraine Jones looks at the politicisation of Black hair and microaggressions experienced by Black women. ...Google ‘Unprofessional Hairstyles for Women’. Now have a look at ‘Professional Hairstyles for Women’. Notice anything? In a popular magazine article about the understudied relationship between Black women and their hair,...
Hybrid working: change management
Money & Business

Hybrid working: change management

...Educational Funding Council for Wales. [HEFCW logo]...Change management for hybrid working: Introduction - Your role within an organisation will influence how comfortable you are with change. If you are responsible for driving and delivering change initiatives, it can be easy to focus on the desired outcomes rather than the journey you need to take people on. The COVID-19...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Statistics: What is it or what are they?
Science, Maths & Technology

Statistics: What is it or what are they?

...concerned with many other areas besides opinion polls. Statistics is used wherever there is quantitative information to be dealt with. Medicine and biomedical science, economics, government, education, psychology, finance, environment, and forensic science are just some of the many areas of twenty-first century life in which statistics and statisticians play a key role....
Download your language survey kit
History & The Arts

Download your language survey kit

...education or previous places of residence or the many other influences on their speech, but there is always a balance to be struck between finding out as much as possible for the purposes of research and not putting people off completely! Download the 'Biographical Details' sheet (168KB) Words sheet Finally we have provided a page of the words on the ‘spidergram’ so...