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Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof
History & The Arts

Past-Time Lover: Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof

...managed to learn a few with the help of my father. He taught me French and German. Later on, I learnt some English and even got into some Lithuanian and Italian. Alongside modern languages, I also studied classical languages such as Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, while at school. I am, in fact, passionate about languages! Where I grew up, on the Polish-Russian border,...
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Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making connections in end-of-life conversations: essential tips for professionals

...manage these communications. Open communication supports informed consent around interventions, and the opportunity for advance planning in terms of care and personal matters, as it provides the patient with information to inform such decisions and actions. However, for people who do not wish to receive this information, or are ambivalent about open communication,...
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Blockchain in Education
Digital & Computing

Blockchain in Education

...that enables the secure and resilient management of distributed data in combination with data analytics techniques that add scale and flexibility to the way levels of qualifications are defined and granted. Click here to download the video transcript (PDF) This article is adapted from an OpenLearn Create course under a Creative Commons license. Visit the original course....
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Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...Introduction - This free course, Assessment in secondary foreign languages, will identify and explore some of the key issues around assessing MFL in secondary schools. Engaging with these issues and debates will help you to reflect upon and develop your assessment practice as a teacher of MFL. You will also develop a greater awareness of how assessment can be used in...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?
Society, Politics & Law

Does the US have a legal obligation to accept refugees?

...manage to reach the US will have to have their asylum claims examined. The duty not to return a person to a state where they may face torture or other serious harms is absolute under the UN’s Convention Against Torture. The US has signed and ratified this convention. However, with the likely increase in asylum detention of people crossing the US-Mexico border that will...
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Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...manage demand on health services over the long run. Combined with the massive cuts expected to local authority budgets, with further impacts on the provision of social care, the ability to manage demand and to deliver the integration between local government and the NHS that is central to the transformation of healthcare is being further undermined. The TUC-led All...
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Can science make you a better leader?
Money & Business

Can science make you a better leader?

...managers, only 21% rated themselves as high on purposefulness. When we broke this down further, we found that 35% of leaders overall said that they had a strong vision for their team and were committed to a wide range of stakeholders. Just 8% said they had a strong personal moral compass. When we asked employees, only 40% said their manager behaved ethically. This...
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How is Italy reinventing the co-op?
Money & Business

How is Italy reinventing the co-op?

...Managing local libraries, cultural centers and archives; Promoting ecotourism in Emilia-Romagna; Launching communications campaigns for green and social justice causes; Running a radio station and publishing a newspaper and website devoted to local news and culture. “The idea of the radio station was to give voice to the voiceless,” says station manager Giusi...
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