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The Z Files: Tony Waithe
Science, Maths & Technology

The Z Files: Tony Waithe

...technology and maths. When kids think of maths generally they think of some complicated numbers, but mathematics is the pressure in those tyres. Benjamin Zephaniah There are hundreds, thousands of young black kids out there, how can they be inspired? What is it that’s stopping them? Tony Waithe I think there’s a lack of confidence amongst young people out there, big...
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Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music
History & The Arts

Shaken and stirred? Blending the familiar and new in Bond’s music

...technologies of music production and post-production. As such, Remote Control Productions blend traditional orchestral sounds and state-of-the art virtual instruments with complex digital sound manipulation. Bond has survived not only the Cold War but also a string of actors and composers, remaining both musically current and yet part of an identifiable tradition. With...
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Earth from above, 18th Century style
History & The Arts

Earth from above, 18th Century style

...technology. Furthermore, in the first few decades of ballooning, its utility was unclear. Although flight had been achieved, the power to navigate had not, so balloons could not be used as aerial transport. Once airborne, balloonists were dependent on the mysteries of the upper air and its currents to carry them along. In this captive state, aeronauts set about conducting...
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Europe’s Borders in Question
Society, Politics & Law

Europe’s Borders in Question

...technologies that rely on biometrics and data-tracking to fast track entry for leisure and business elites and block access to those deemed a security risk or the ‘wrong’ kind of migrant. In writing about the borders of Europe, Etienne Balibar, a French political philosopher, asserted that “borders are no longer the shores of the political but have indeed become…...
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Tim Lenton - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tim Lenton - Stories of Change

...Education Award for Research Project of the Year 2008. He has also received a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2004, a European Geosciences Union Outstanding Young Scientist Award 2006, the British Association Charles Lyell Award Lecture 2006, and the Geological Society of London William Smith Fund 2008. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, the Geological Society and the Society...
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Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Interpreting data: Boxplots and tables

...education than the other sample (six years or less for mothers in the first sample, and seven years or more for those in the other sample). Table 1.4 Family size: mothers married aged 15–19 Mother educated for six years or less 14 13 4 14 10 2 13 5 0 0 13 3 9 2 10 11 13 5 14 Mother educated for seven years or more 0 4 0 2 3 3 0 4 7 1 9 4 3 2 3 2 16 6 0 13 6 6 5 9 10 5 4...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...Education...Continuity and learning: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: identify specific dimensions of workplace learning understand the concept of biographical learning plan and carry out an informal interview about lifelong learning...Continuity and learning: 1 Workplace learning - Theories of workplace learning draw on...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...Education (2020) states that ‘The wellbeing of children and young people is central to Government policy and is central to achieving the aims of the Department for Education’. [Two young children studying at a table. A teacher is helping one of the children.] ‘Recent reports have shown that the wellbeing of children in the UK, and England specifically, remains...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs