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Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)
Education & Development

Navigating Relationship Sex Education (RSE)

...skill in delivering this area within their contexts and legal frameworks. Whilst RSE is contentious in nature, the group identified a range of opportunities this area of learning brings. These included: placing children at the centre of decisions and understanding their needs using role play and scenarios to discuss ‘sensitive’ issues taking a cross-curriculum...
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Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation
Science, Maths & Technology

Researching rare disorders: NGLY-1, the first disorder of deglycosylation

...skills as well as loss of muscle tone and a lack of tears. It was first identified in 2012, and to date there have been only 55 patients identified with this disorder worldwide with ages ranging from a few months old to those in their 20’s. Currently there is no cure for this disorder and all medications focus on treating the symptoms. More on rare diseases and cells...
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How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can knowing how DNA repairs itself help defeat cancer?

...studies, the researchers were trying to find out how cells cope when they can’t accurately repair their DNA using their preferred, homologous recombination toolkit. The scientists studied cells grown in the lab that had been experimentally manipulated so they were forced to use an alternative repair pathway. When they looked closely at the repairs that had been made,...
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Why Do Historians Disagree?
History & The Arts

Why Do Historians Disagree?

...studied in the first place More recently, arguments about the validity of historical method Selection and interpretation of evidence At the level of primary research and evidence, historians often find different evidence on the same subject. In some areas of historical inquiry new information causes new conclusions to be drawn and that evidence as well as those...
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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...studies; to be ‘fluent’ as a supermarket check-out operator is different from being ‘fluent’ as a university student. Overall, the key point here is that ‘fluency’ means different things to different people and while we are often all too eager to pass judgment on the proficiency of those who have traces of complex language learning trajectories in their...
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Different cultures, different childhoods
History & The Arts

Different cultures, different childhoods

...studies of peoples with very different understandings of the world to Western ones. Canadian Arctic: Acquiring understanding Jean Briggs has worked with the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic and has described how, within these communities, growing up is largely seen as a process of acquiring thought, reason and understanding (known in Inuit as ihuma). Young children don’t...
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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...skills and communicate more easily and effectively in Spanish? This free course, Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink, focuses on buying and ordering food and drink at a restaurant or bar. You will be able to use some basic vocabulary relating to food, drinks, meals, quantities and measures. In this OpenLearn course you will listen to Spanish speakers in a variety of...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Thinking Outside the Box
Society, Politics & Law

Thinking Outside the Box

...skills to help them communicate complex ideas. When I put the artist hat on, I delve deeper into the issues I personally care about and look at different ways of developing my practice. As an artist I also like to work more with exploring narrative structures and weaving together individual stories that show a snapshot of emotions and opinions at a particular point in...
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Article 5 mins