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Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Innovation Design: Energy and Sustainability

...change to green technologies, and the current programmes that exist to support that. What drives innovation in sustainable technologies A professor of technology policy talks about the route of innovation in the context of green technologies. Government: actor in the diffusion game The role that government plays in promoting new technologies and the influence that they...
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Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...climatic factors that vary in both time and space. The various operations and mechanisms within the cycle are illustrated in Figure 2. [Described image] Figure 2 The hydrological cycle (volumes are in Tm3 = 1012 m3)...Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment: 2 Sources of pollution - To some extent a river is a self-renewing resource. If polluting discharges to a...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring learning disabilities: supporting belonging

...change so frequently is to escape the stigma that accompanies learning disability. But as Cian said, it hasn’t worked! Later in this session you will look at the pros and cons of labelling. But first, some definitions...Session 1: What is a learning disability?: 2 What is a learning disability? - The previous section discussed how labels used about people with learning...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does rugby provide a focus for South African unity?

...change into democracy, and then conquered the world in rugby. South Africa was united, and things looked very promising. This inspired the nation and rugby icons became veritable lobbyists for political change and the normalisation and deracialisation of the society, known locally as transformation. Rugby fields became a virtual Colosseum of dreams. Lack of transformation...
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Who will lead Britain out of the European Union
Society, Politics & Law

Who will lead Britain out of the European Union

...change people’s minds rather than focusing on getting existing eurosceptics out to vote. And there is evidence to support that approach. British public opinion towards European integration can be summarised as largely indifferent and mostly shallow. That makes it highly erratic. Famously, the 1975 referendum moved opinion from two-thirds in favour of a “No” to...
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How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...change lengths, the laser beams take a different time to travel through them. This means that the two beams are no longer “in step” and what we call an interference pattern is produced – hence the name interferometer. The changes in the length of the arms are actually tiny – roughly one million millionth the width of a human hair. This is because the signal from a...
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What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?
Science, Maths & Technology

What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?

...change in the diameter of the Earth compared to the 1m change due to a tidal bulge. What can gravitational waves be used for? Given that these ripples are so small and so difficult to detect, why have we made such an effort to find them – and why should we care about spotting them? Two immediate reasons come to mind (I’ll leave aside my own interest in simply wanting...
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RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes
Education & Development

RIP, LEA: The local education authority vanishes

...change will not deliver long-term sustained improvement in itself. Local authorities have provided a platform for a range of collaborations between heads, teachers, various schools and local and national services. Admittedly, some authorities are better at this than others, but the setting up of a free market competitive model for school governance where academy trusts...
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