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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...children (and indeed, the ways schools serve wider societal goals). Thus, the student voice is important and the subject can seem fragmented and distant. See what one student, Jessica, had to say by clicking on 'view document' below. View document Wider and deeper considerations are also important. In a significant article, Bill Marsden points out some of the dangers of...
FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality
Science, Maths & Technology

FabLab Nepal: creative learning as a way towards equality

...children from low-income families and girls. [Map of the locations] One of the key emphases of the programme was in fact on encouraging gender equality in the STEAM sector of Nepal by allocating more than half of the available seats to female students, who still face an opportunity deficit in Nepal as they are more likely to be sent to CG schools than boys. [Photo of some...
Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations
Money & Business

Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations

...children's centre that provided premises for weekly free play sessions-- so important for these children. I think everyone-- the trustees, staff, the volunteers-- openly say, like a badge of honour, that the organisation is built on trust and personal relationships, not bureaucracy. And I really get that. You know, I'm a mum, too, and I love kids. I can't stand it when I...
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Health, Sports & Psychology

What You Need to Know About Psychometrics

...research studies have found that people who do better in these tests, perform better in the job role itself. For example, in their meta-analysis of research studies, books and reports, Bertua et al. (2005) found that tests of general mental ability and specific cognitive abilities (verbal, numerical, perceptual and spatial) are valid predictors of both job performance and...
Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Success and failure in healthcare: should regulation be simple or integrated?

...Centre in the centre of Warrington, Cheshire.] In a recent radio broadcast Kevin Fong explored how helicopter emergency medical services became the most dangerous occupation in American. Cost, training and safety were implicated in a surge in the number of incidents, but an additional potential cause was regulation: or rather that the emergency helicopter medical service...
What did Bernie Sanders' campaign achieve?
Society, Politics & Law

What did Bernie Sanders' campaign achieve?

...centre. Donald Trump has urged Sanders to run as an independent candidate because he has been “treated terribly” by his party. But Sanders has not been treated especially poorly, and it’s hard to see why he would bolt when dividing the Democrats would all but assure Trump of victory. What Trump also misunderstands is that, unlike his devastating campaign,...
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless
Health, Sports & Psychology

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics – Welcome to the risk takers and the fearless

...CENTRE, INCLUDING SKATING, ICE HOCKEY AND CURLING. THE SLIDING CENTRE IN THE YANQING ZONE WILL BE HOME TO SPECTACULAR SPEED EVENTS SUCH AS BOBSLEIGH, LUGE, AND SKELETON AND ALSO ALPINE SKI EVENTS. THE ZHANGJIAKOU ZONE IS WHERE FREESTYLE SKIING, CROSS COUNTRY SKIING, BIATHLON AND SKI JUMPING WILL TAKE PLACE. [THE SHOUGANG BIG AIR VENUE AT THE NIGHT IN BEIJING FOR THE 2022...
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...centre has become a nuclear reactor. The weight of all the layers of the star pressing inwards creates huge temperatures and pressures at the centre. Under these conditions hydrogen undergoes nuclear fusion, creating helium. All of the energy that the Sun produces comes from this conversion of hydrogen gas into helium gas. Our Sun is about 4.5 billion years old. 4.5...
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