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Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students
Education & Development

Closing the awarding gap: practical actions to support Black and minority ethnic students

...learning diaries). Provide exemplars, marking guidance, or previously graded assessments to help students understand what good work looks like. Explicitly show how strong assignments map onto the marking criteria (e.g. what counts as ‘analysis’?, what does ‘relevance’ look like?). Signpost when students should begin preparing for assessments, particularly at...
Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...learn more Union Black: Britain’s Black cultures and steps to anti-racism Transcript Anti-racism in higher education How is your institution enabling Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students to thrive? Is your institution effectively tackling racism? Following the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement, the Higher Education sector has started making bold...
Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?
Education & Development

Reading for pleasure: just window dressing?

...learning, is a social and collaborative act of participation, as well as an individual one, a point which Goswami also underscores in the CPRT research review into Children’s Cognitive Development and Learning. In order to avoid reading for pleasure becoming little more than a colourful visual laid across the landscape of schools, we must ensure the social environment...
Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools
History & The Arts

Opening up history: teaching transatlantic slavery in British schools

...learning about the past will inspire them to become the next generation of historians. 8. What were the most enjoyable, and difficult, parts of the project? The most enjoyable part of the project was working with the students and teachers that have participated in the different education initiatives that underpinned the work. One student described her learning process as...
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...learn how to understand and give directions, ask about accommodation, book a hotel room at the tourist information office and get information about what to see and do in the local area. You will visit some museums in Avignon and buy a film for your camera. The course also deals with telling the time and making liaisons in speech. By the end of the course, you will feel...
The Life of Saint Andrew
History & The Arts

The Life of Saint Andrew

...learned dissertations published in 1748 and 1751. The authority of this piece being contested, little stress is laid upon it: and the following account is gathered from the sacred writings, and those of the fathers. [ Saint Andrew, holding a scroll, looks intently to his left, indicating that the panel once may have formed part of a group of icons with Christ at the...
The life of Mama Elouise Edwards
History & The Arts

The life of Mama Elouise Edwards

...learned to read and write undertook to pass on those skills. So members of the women’s group would support each other by being available to accompany parents on school visits, parents’ evenings, pupil case conferences and to make representation to the City Council Education Department on various issues. Recognising the need to fill a cultural gap in their children’s...
Evolutionary tree of mammals
Nature & Environment

Evolutionary tree of mammals

...Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: develop an appreciation of the huge variety of different mammals that exist on Earth today see how fossil evidence can help us to understand evolutionary history understand how the structure of DNA can help us to detect differences between different species apply the techniques of DNA analysis to work...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs