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Engaging with children and young people
Money & Business

Engaging with children and young people

...work for the Education Authority for Northern Ireland. I'm an assistant director within the Children and Young People's Services Directorate, and I have specific responsibility for the management of youth services in Northern Ireland. And I work with my colleagues in particular to support vulnerable children and young people. Just last year, Northern Ireland published its...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Risk management Badge icon
Money & Business

Risk management

...work on time, or trying to take a shortcut, or whatever it might be. Everything has a risk. And generally, we take risks so we can try and maximise or take advantage of some opportunity somewhere. Video 1 What does ‘risk’ mean?...Session 1: Living in a world of risk: 2 The importance of managing risk - Now watch Video 2 from the experts on why risk management is...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher
Languages

An unheard voice from a Chinese teacher

...Working as a Chinese teacher in a British school, I can see little open debate on what truly makes a good lesson and whether teacher should be free to choose different teaching methods for different subjects or content. The ideas on these issues seem to set hard like concrete and seeking for a perfect Ofsted lesson become an important part of professional development for...
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Article 10 mins
Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences
Science, Maths & Technology

Queen (and Slave) Of The Sciences

...work of a mathematician in your everyday life? If you are reading this article then you are at the computer: designed and programmed by mathematicians. Perhaps you like the cinema. The largest employer of mathematicians in the world is Pixar animations. Shrek just isn’t as funny when he’s flat. Maths makes his tummy round and his face comic. And it isn’t only...
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Article 10 mins
Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955
Society, Politics & Law

Women lead the struggle at Rolls-Royce on Clydeside, 1955

...Work at this plant, to produce ‘Merlin’ aeroengines for RAF Spitfires and other warplanes, shadowed an established Rolls-Royce factory at Derby which, being further south and east, was more easily reached by the Luftwaffe. In the post-war period, at the East Kilbride plant, it was the ‘Avon’ jet engine which was the focus of production. [Women on the Merlin engine...
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Article 5 mins
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...works under any circumstances but much evidence that punishment (especially severe punishment) encourages violent or otherwise undesirable behaviour. Thus, the idea that the particular punishment that prisons deliver will transform people and encourage (or force) them to lead better lives upon release is fundamentally flawed. In an intentionally punitive environment,...
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Article 12 mins
Encouraging book talk in the school library
Education & Development

Encouraging book talk in the school library

...working with pupils in school libraries...As adults we sometimes struggle to justify our feelings about particular books, but children are quite clear about what they like and don't like. It is possible to get children to discuss why they liked or did not like particular books and to encourage them to think more deeply about the books they've read. This free course,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel
History & The Arts

Killed by Agatha Christie: Strychnine and the detective novel

...work and others from the 1920s and 1930s, a era sometimes called the golden age of detective fiction, always fascinated me. The wickedness of the poisons, the cold calculation of the poisoners in the stories, all influenced my own non-fiction book, The Poisoner’s Handbook, which takes a narrative look at forensic toxicology in that same time period. In an earlier...
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Article 5 mins