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Can we get to a world without suicide?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can we get to a world without suicide?

...English essay his teacher would later describe as among the best he had read, police knocked at the door of the family home in Meldreth, a village ten miles south of Cambridge. Steve Mallen was at home, alone. “You become painfully aware that something appalling has happened,” he recalls. “You go through the description, they offer commiserations and a booklet, and...
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Exploring Religion in London
History & The Arts

Exploring Religion in London

...English speaking adults, followed by a short dharma talk. After that, meditation will take place. Beginners will be instructed and guided. Advanced meditators will be practising on their own. We call it a day retreat. We just meditate on your own, no instruction, we just do whatever meditation you prefer. Mainly, they want a bit of fresh air, the meditators can go to that...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...English National Curriculum KS3 test questions, which suggests some potential lack of fairness in testing regimes. It is likely that these issues raised by Cooper’s research relating to assessment apply to all testing regimes. Consider the implications from this (and other) research, which shows that poorer children: … go into lower sets … … so they are entered...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...everyday rural activities in this way), he bears out the German proverb that ‘a farmer does not leave his plough for the sake of a dying man’. And if you look carefully, there is a skull halfway up the trunk of the fruit tree towards which the plough furrows run...Icarus: entering the world of myth: 4.2 A further angle on the painting - Although all these human...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems
Nature & Environment

Introducing the environment: Ecology and ecosystems

...everyday meaning, you may recognise it as the ‘ability’ to do something; whether that is movement, heating, lighting or providing food or fuel. These correspond to different forms of energy – kinetic (motion), thermal (heat), light, and chemical (food or fuel). Energy can be converted from one form to another. For example, a plant converts sunlight into chemical...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach
Society, Politics & Law

Children and violence: an introductory, international and interdisciplinary approach

...everyday effects of living in a civil conflict. It also emphasizes that, even in a modern, wealthy society such as the UK, war affects children's lives. As you read through it, note the various forms of violence that children suffer, both physical and emotional. Discussion In this extract, Cairns looks at both the physical and the psychological effects of war on children....
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...English Dictionary as ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy’. However, it is important to realise that wellbeing is a much broader concept than moment-to-moment happiness. While it does include happiness, it also includes other things, such as how satisfied people are with their life a whole, their sense of purpose, and how in control they feel...Young...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The First World War: trauma and memory
History & The Arts

The First World War: trauma and memory

...English towns and cities, including London, causing casualties and, of course, instilling fear. It is clear that the killing of innocent civilians had a profound impact on public attitudes in Britain. The bombing of the school in East London provided further evidence for many of Germany’s barbaric aggression, as the following extract from The Times indicates: A hard...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs