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Exploring how migration changes the places where we live
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring how migration changes the places where we live

...data sharing between NHS and Border control. Jess thinks that healthcare should never be a site of border control. While there are activist networks documenting and resisting internal border controls, Rachel argues that there are also invisible effects of the hostile environment policy. Academic work can contribute to finding new solidarities. Transcript Abi Brunswick and...
Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...data. Our aim is to produce graduates who are confident with working in both Welsh and English. Take a look at the video below to find out about a student’s experience of learning medicine through the medium of Welsh. STUDENT: Well, being brought up in a Welsh household and going to a Welsh medium school and doing most of my GCSEs and A Levels through the medium of...
Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Geological processes in the British Isles
Science, Maths & Technology

Geological processes in the British Isles

...data based on BGS's published poster maps of the UK on this page. There are various downloadable formats available. They are referred to as Ten Mile Maps (N) or (S) throughout the course. Figure 1, below, is an artist's impression of what part of northern England looked like during different periods of the region's geological history. You can see that over a relatively...
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...data...Financial methods in environmental decisions: 1 Financial assessment techniques - The for-profit sector survives by generating profits. Profits fund the development of the next generation of goods and services that a firm supplies. The shareholders, who are the owners of the business also demand that a firm makes a profit. If a company is unable to return a share...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...data in Table 1 are for a model on a scale of 1 cm to 5000 km. How much bigger is the real Solar System than the model? One metre is 100 centimetres, and 1 kilometre is 1000 metres, so there are one hundred thousand centimetres in a kilometre (i.e. 1 km = 100 000 cm). In 5000 kilometres there are five hundred thousand thousand centimetres - in other words five hundred...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...analysis, teaching assistants take on those whole-school and classroom duties that teachers feel they can delegate to a less qualified, but not necessarily less experienced, colleague. In theory, this should leave teachers with ‘spare’ time to do additional tasks of their choice, because another person is doing part of their work. Alternatively, perhaps teaching...
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...data in the other. Interestingly, Americans refer to the imperial system as 'English units'. Not every engineering decision about a length needs to be based on an actual measurement. Most of Blanc's gauges for the parts of the M1777 musket lock were of the 'go/no go' type. A particular pin, for example, had to be small enough to enter one gauge hole but big enough not to...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Metals in medicine
Science, Maths & Technology

Metals in medicine

...data from a large number of angles, a computer reconstruction can produce a two-dimensional map of the tissues in a slice of the body. RADIOGRAPHER: So what we’re going to do now is choose the protocols that we’re going to use to do the head. So we’re going to click on the appropriate part of the body here. So we click on ‘head’. And we’re going to do an adult...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs