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Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...work, access to welfare, sense of identity and belonging, and practices of the everyday. Throughout human history people have migrated from their place of birth for different reasons – for example, to seek new ways of surviving, to colonise new lands, to establish new markets for trade, or because they feared for their lives in their country of origin. Large movements...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...working with a situation and you realise that you don't quite understand it, or you can't quite see what to do, or you don't know if what you did before has helped – in other words, times when you are puzzled, intrigued or worried. These times are, for you, the equivalent of a field trip for a geologist, a visit to a gallery for an art historian, or gathering vital...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
What is COVID-19?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is COVID-19?

...working hypothesis is that this virus has made the leap from bats to humans, possibly via an intermediary species. Really, we need to know whether there is an existing reservoir of infection in the animal kingdom, which could serve as a source of future outbreaks, as is the case with Ebola, or whether the mutation arose and died out in animals, but not before being...
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Article 10 mins
Who will lead Britain out of the European Union
Society, Politics & Law

Who will lead Britain out of the European Union

...work together. Simon Usherwood explores the sides battling to lead...The rules are clear. Only one group can lead the official campaign on either side of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. And while that isn’t proving a problem for the side that wants to stay in, the process of picking a leader for the exit camp is proving deeply political and highly...
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Article 5 mins
Can your friend be your therapist?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can your friend be your therapist?

...work with people over a short or long term to help them bring about effective change or enhance their wellbeing.’ So a therapeutic relationship is concerned with working towards change and dealing with problems, but what about friendships? Sociologist Graham Allen (2008) has studied the nature of friendship and suggests that there are at least three key features in...
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Article 10 mins
What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?
Science, Maths & Technology

What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?

...working at the LIGO experiment in the US have for the first time detected elusive ripples in the fabric of space and time known as gravitational waves. There is no doubt that the finding is one of the most groundbreaking physics discoveries of the past 100 years. But what are they? [Computer simulation of two merging black holes producing gravitational waves] Computer...
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Article 5 mins
What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?
Society, Politics & Law

What does toilet paper teach us about poverty?

...works. Atif Kukaswadia explains...One of the greatest fictional stories isn’t a summer blockbuster and doesn’t star a big-budget Hollywood celebrity. It’s the story that individuals are poor due to their lack of will/drive/desire, and if they worked harder, they’d work themselves out of poverty. We like to call it the “American Dream.” Perhaps the most...
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Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'
Education & Development

Teaching the people of the Calais camp: Lessons in 'The Jungle'

...working together to write a book, Voices from the Jungle, due to be published by Pluto Press next year. Many students benefit from support and feedback in developing their story telling, but the stories are not for us. Rather, through teaching techniques and styles of telling, and engaging with the stories of others through our readings, we encourage students to own their...
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