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Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year
Languages

Year of the Tiger: Chinese New Year

...children wear tiger-headed embroidered shoes for good luck. Each Chinese Lunar year is associated with an animal sign according to a 12-year-cycle. Babies born between 1 February 2022 and 22 January 2023 will be given the animal sign ‘Tiger’. Recent and upcoming years of the Tiger are 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010 and 2022. As the tiger is considered to be...
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Article 5 mins
Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance
Health, Sports & Psychology

Leaving no stone unturned in the pursuit of female athletic performance

...research [A women running through mud.] At the moment, in sport, female athletes usually train and are coached in a similar way to their male counterparts. The support that is applied to their performance (nutrition, physiology, psychology, etc.) is usually based on research that’s been done on men, or what has seen to been successful with male athletes. Very little...
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Article 15 mins
Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...centre... There are three different types of rock: igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic. These three types are formed in different ways and have different properties that, to the trained eye, usually make them easy to tell apart. Dr Marcus Badger shows you how... Transcript MARCUS BADGER: So here we have the three fundamental types of rock. We've got a sedimentary rock,...
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Introducing ICT systems
Digital & Computing

Introducing ICT systems

...centre to illustrate this point. In this example, the health centre uses a computerised booking system and the patient may phone or visit the health centre to make an appointment. Therefore, the system includes a patient, a receptionist, a doctor, and a computerised booking system. The example shown in Figure 1 shows how this system could be represented using a system...
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Level 1: Introductory 9 hrs
Learning through spoken interaction
Education & Development

Learning through spoken interaction

...children do not simply copy what they have heard. For example, children may make up words for concepts they have not yet heard the word for. Later they are likely to encounter the appropriate words. As they develop their knowledge of a language, children also use this language to learn about the world. In formal educational contexts, spoken interaction is also vitally...
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Article 10 mins
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...children in low income countries will complete primary school in 2030, the year of the SDG deadline. The target to achieve universal primary education, which remains within the broader SDG on education, won’t happen until 2042. On the same trajectory, the new target for universal lower secondary education will come about in 2059 and universal upper secondary in 2084....
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English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation
History & The Arts

English Literature, Racism and Rehabilitation

...children to read on the grounds that it feeds the imagination, informs us about the world and teaches a kind of empathy through the different perspectives it affords. (More concrete evidence exists for the benefits of regularly reading literature – and being read to – for children’s cognitive development and educational attainment.) For those of us lucky enough to...
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Article 10 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...centres around large and small clumps of soil that hold together. Six explains that in healthy soils, it is the way the clumps set in place that protects microbial populations and also traps carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients. But what most makes soil a living system is biodiversity. Wall notes that “all the different organisms, whether it’s different groups of...
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