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What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...education system in England has become, a new report by MPs has outlined it in no uncertain terms. The report by the House of Commons education select committee into Regional Schools Commissioners (RSCs) raises a number of concerns about the role and function of the people charged with overseeing the growing number of academy schools in England. The report questions the...
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Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war
History & The Arts

Hedd Wyn: how the life of one of Wales’ most promising poets was cut short by the first world war

...education was spasmodic and he was frequently absent from school when the weather was bad, as there was a substantial distance between the school and his home. Hedd Wyn was an inept farmer and shepherd, but he loved looking after the sheep out on the mountain pastures, though only because the solitude and silence gave him ample opportunity to meditate and to write poetry....
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Advanced Spanish: Language in context
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Language in context

...de cambio perpetuo y, en la actualidad, nos guste o no, las lenguas están cambiando de manera vertiginosa con los nuevos medios de comunicación. En esta sesión escucharás a una lingüista expresar sus opiniones sobre este tema y luego verás dos nuevas versiones de un clásico de la literatura mundial...Advanced Spanish: Language in context: 1.1 ¿Qué es una lengua...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Science for everyone as £1m pledge supports new Open University courses
Science, Maths & Technology

Science for everyone as £1m pledge supports new Open University courses

...Education, the educational arm of The Exilarch’s Foundation...The pledge has enabled The Open University to create an entire strand of new science-related badged open courses, delivered through the OpenLearn platform, and syndicated to iTunes, Amazon and Google. Dangoor Education supported badged courses offer whole OU courses at no cost to the student, ranging from...
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Academic versus AI
Science, Maths & Technology

Academic versus AI

...education in 2024' - into both ChatGPT and an Open University academic. We wanted to find out if it was easy to spot the difference between the work generated by a human - Mike Richards of the OU’s computing department - and that from a machine. Below are both articles. Read them and then return to our social media channels to tell us which you believe is human-written....
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Advanced Spanish: Protest song
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...de la canción protesta en el mundo y en Cuba, España y Uruguay en particular...Advanced Spanish: Protest song: 1.1 Contexto histórico - Actividad 1 En esta primera actividad vas a empezar a recoger información sobre el año 1968 con relación al contexto internacional y a la canción protesta cubana en particular. Paso 1 A lo largo de las dos sesiones siguientes, vas...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
What does the head of Ofsted do?
Society, Politics & Law

What does the head of Ofsted do?

...education reform against resistance from unions. The idea that a new head of Ofsted brought in from a totally different cultural context will somehow be able to wave a magic wand over English education is not only both misguided and myopic, but shows a fundamental ignorance of what Ofsted was set up to do. Being the head of Ofsted has never been an easy role. The chief...
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Universities United
Nature & Environment

Universities United

...education institutions are working together to tackle climate change...Universities or the staff from those universities often work together on projects of mutual interest. Indeed, many grant funding schemes for research and development projects expect there to be a consortium of partner organisations, including universities on any bid proposal. I myself have been...
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