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How might COVID-19 affect cancer patients at different stages of their disease?
Science, Maths & Technology

How might COVID-19 affect cancer patients at different stages of their disease?

...social distancing and the advice provided by NHS staff should be followed. How will COVID-19 affect cancer treatment? In the UK, 45% of patients diagnosed with cancer have surgery to remove the tumour as part of their primary cancer treatment. 27% of patients have radiotherapy, and 28% have chemotherapy according to Cancer Research UK. Doctors will continue to offer these...
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Article 10 mins
What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?
Nature & Environment

What’s corruption got to do with climate change, and why should we care?

...social scientists who study corruption4 who are concerned that money allocated to climate projects may not always be spent in the way intended. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) such as Transparency International5 and Oxfam6 share the concerns of activists such as the jailed Russian opposition campaigner, Alexei Navalny. Navalny wrote a letter from prison7 in August...
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Article 10 mins
Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Veganuary: can it make a positive difference?

...social change? Psychologist Chris Bryant argues that it does. For instance, he reports research that sales of vegan items in workplace cafeterias participating in Veganuary increased by ‘86–113% in the 2019-2022 campaigns’. Increased sales were sustained beyond the end of Veganuary, suggesting a lasting impact, and being echoed by increased vegan sales in...
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Article 5 mins
Empires: power, resistance, legacies
History & The Arts

Empires: power, resistance, legacies

...social relations. The way that empires were established and maintained required the exercise of different forms of power: from military conquest and violent suppression to cultural hybridity and ‘philanthropic’ investment. [Described image] Figure 1 ‘The History of Mexico: From Conquest to the Future’ by Diego Rivera, murals at Palacio Nacional, Mexico City....
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...work through the activities you will be encouraged to record your thoughts on an idea, an issue or a reading, and how it relates to your practice. Hopefully you will have opportunities to discuss your ideas with colleagues. We therefore suggest that you use a notebook – either physical or electronic – to record your thoughts in a way in which they can easily be...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction
History & The Arts

Agatha Christie and the golden age of detective fiction

...works, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926), and explore the evolution of British detective fiction in relation to Christie’s background, literary modernism and the development of middlebrow fiction...When we think of twentieth century literature as a popular cultural form, Agatha Christie (1890–1976), Britain’s pre-eminent crime fiction author after the First World...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sut mae rheoli straen ddigidol technoleg

...social media icons] Y tro nesaf y byddwch yn mynd ar y cyfryngau cymdeithasol, edrychwch ar y postiadau gwahanol ar eich ffrwd a bod yn onest â'ch hun ynghylch sut maent yn gwneud i chi deimlo. Os yw lluniau, sylwadau neu negeseuon trydar rhywun yn gwneud i chi deimlo’n ddrwg, dylech ddad-ddilyn neu guddio’r person hwnnw (hyd yn oed os mai eich ffrind gorau yw’r...
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Article 10 mins
Exploring evidence-based policing
Money & Business

Exploring evidence-based policing

...work or outside. What sources of evidence did you draw on in making that decision? Are these among the four sources of ‘best available’ evidence identified? Did you critically appraise the evidence in the way described above? If you did, how did you go about this? If not, what is your judgement now of the quality of the evidence you used? Discussion As humans we can...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs