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Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview
Education & Development

Writing your proposal and preparing for your interview

...technology affect learners in schools’ is not well defined or clear enough. These decisions may change once you are engaged in your research, but at the proposal stage you will need to outline a plan of research that is new, coherent and manageable. The Introduction: The first part of your proposal might start by introducing the broad context to the discipline and...
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Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry
Money & Business

Volkswagen scandal will send costly ripples through auto industry

...technology has long held a fuel economy advantage over gasoline engines, yet older ones were much dirtier, emitting 500 parts per million of sulfur, a key source of particulate emissions. “Clean diesel” engines of the last decade are designed to emit 97% less sulfur emissions, and yet still get as much as 30% better fuel economy than comparable gasoline-powered...
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How to read a rock
Science, Maths & Technology

How to read a rock

...technology our modern society relies on is full of metals such as gold, platinum, nickel and tantalum that occur in trace amounts in rocks In language, if we put letters together, we form words. In geology, if we put elements together, we form minerals. A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic substance having an orderly internal structure and characteristic chemical...
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Studying medicine bilingually
Health, Sports & Psychology

Studying medicine bilingually

...education then Welsh medium education throughout Wales becomes more valuable and gives a higher status to the Welsh language as well. It gives people the confidence to speak it out of work and out of an academic environment. It’s been very rewarding so far, two years in, teaching a degree of the medical curriculum through the medium of Welsh. We’ve had small group...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons
History & The Arts

Banning the bomb: a global history of activism against nuclear weapons

...educated the people of the region about the seriousness of the waste. From the effects of the nuclear bomb and the atomic bomb, and despite all this, we started messaging France to ask for their rights to retire, but the French were ducking and every time they argued something, for example, come to France and every lawyer or some personally. And he has various diseases...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Euro 2020: Will England's ruthless academy system show its value?

...education. Each professional football club’s academy is regularly audited and placed into one of four categories. Premier League clubs and some Championship clubs operate Category 1 academies which require an annual multi-million-pound investment. Category 2 and 3 academies are generally associated with clubs in League 1 and League 2 of the Football League, while...
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The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies
OpenLearn Ireland

The ‘New World’ Beckons: Irish Migration to Britain’s American Colonies

...educated ‘a generation of military/political entrepreneurs in the mechanics and process of settlement’ (2008, p. 168) that would have far-reaching implications for life in other British colonies. For example, English explorer and general Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1537-1583), who earned distinction and notoriety for his ruthless suppression of the Irish clans, was later...
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The challenge of invasive alien species
Nature & Environment

The challenge of invasive alien species

...education/awareness efforts for the general public. In this respect, the public and conservation organisations can play a major role in monitoring for invasive species. Eradication methods could be of physical nature (e.g. direct removal of invasive species by hand or mechanically); chemical (e.g. using toxic chemicals to target and kill the offending invader) or...
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