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Reading evidence
Society, Politics & Law

Reading evidence

...mental fog descend when we are asked to deal with them. This is because numerical information is information in a very condensed and abstract form. A number on its own means very little. You have to learn to read it. Numeracy (the ability to work with numbers) is a skill that we can learn. It is a very useful skill, because it allows us to understand very quickly the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...mental distress enforced body modifications, such as the amputation of pigs’ tails, the ‘clipping’ of piglets’ teeth, the castration of piglets or the partial amputation of hens’ beaks (sometimes called ‘debeaking’) increased incidence of injury or infections resulting from the farm environment, such as mastitis (a painful inflammation of cows’ udders)...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...health, detailing topics such as the signs of pregnancy, how to tell false labor from true, the various positions the baby might present in, etc. Not surprisingly, since it was plagiarized from another midwifery book, this information was largely unexceptional. The book’s prose style promised readers that medical knowledge was not difficult. For example, in discussing...
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Article 10 mins
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...Health Organization saidThursday on its website. Now, no cases doesn't mean no one caught Zika at the Summer Games. About 80 percent of people who get infected don't know it. They don't have any symptoms. And those who do get sick often have only mild symptoms. So the vast majority of cases go unreported. But so far, it's looking like predictions from computer models were...
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Video 5 mins
Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...health issues, so to me having a tutor who emails regularly would be the best. Fun can aid learning but at the moment fun is not a state of mind that I have. I would find the addition of 'fun' or forced social activities tortuous. To conclude this article, some recommendations were drawn from students’ reflective views about the relationship between fun and learning....
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Article 20 mins
Democracy? You think you know?
Education & Development

Democracy? You think you know?

...health care, education, and defence? Whether we should generate electricity using nuclear power, solar power, or gas? Are there some issues that especially lend themselves to being dealt with by direct democracy? Try some experiments to see how far democracy should go using Activity 2. Activity 2 Consider an exercise along the following lines: A school is like a mini...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
How to write a CV
Education & Development

How to write a CV

...health status. Your nationality. Your full address details (especially if your CV is publicly accessible for example on job boards). School and university addresses, or examining boards. Minor qualifications unrelated to the post applied for. Choose the right type of CV How you present your skills, achievements and ambitions in a CV (curriculum vitae) are key so it’s...
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Article 5 mins
An appreciative approach to inquiry
Education & Development

An appreciative approach to inquiry

...wellbeing during Covid-19 A group of primary and secondary teachers in Scotland met in a workshop to reflect on how Covid-19 had impacted on teacher wellbeing during the pandemic and how they could support their colleagues and themselves going forward. Inevitably, each person came with experiences of the negative impacts that Covid had had on their wellbeing; the...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs