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Redundancy - what are your next steps?
Education & Development

Redundancy - what are your next steps?

...work life balance you had longed for or even change career direction completely. Remember redundancy isn’t personal, but how you respond to it is. This article includes links to podcasts on how to prepare for, manage and come through the other side of redundancy. You can find out about support that may be available to you, advice on finance, wellbeing and career...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...work. Students who use online translation tools miss out on the actual learning potential that is an important part of carefully crafted assessments. [A graphic of a globe with the word translate in many different languages over the different countries] So how can we create assessment tasks for language learners in times of digital machine translation tools? It seems that...
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Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)
Science, Maths & Technology

Electrochemical Grinding (ECG)

...work gap, is typically 0.01–0.25 mm Although the wheels are more expensive than those for conventional grinding, overall wheel costs are only 1/10 as much, as only 2–5% of the wheel removed by abrasion. Low wheel wear means less frequent wheel dressing, although the longer runs, between dressing, necessitate more precise wheel truing than for conventional grinding;...
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Do children have agency as authors?
Education & Development

Do children have agency as authors?

...work and we’re not there yet, it’s this rich combination of outcomes and engagement that seems to have been the key to the 91 primary schools who’ve signed up so far (we need 100 – all are welcome!) I’ve spent many early mornings listening to head teachers’ concerns about their young people’s disaffected attitudes towards writing. The way in which they...
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The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Professor Geoff Palmer

...working in grain and cereals. He’s broken almost every stereotype going. He was born in the same part of Jamaica as my mother and has encountered poverty, racism and some of the educational difficulties I have. I want to find out how he has coped with and overcome these challenges, and how he became a legend in the brewing industry. So this place is just full of...
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Young people’s wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Young people’s wellbeing

...work with them/support them? What might an alternative, critical framework for understanding young people's wellbeing look like? How is young people's wellbeing shaped by diversity and inequality? What are the implications of a critical approach for promoting young people's wellbeing? You will begin by looking at two newspaper stories that are fairly typical of recent...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Can comedy change your life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Can comedy change your life?

...working through difficult subjects or feelings. [Negin Farsad] Negin Farsad Over the years, researchers have built a substantial body of evidence that some types of comedy – including sophisticated satire, which is growing in popularity – perform a potent social function, from breaking taboos to holding those in power to account. Avner Ziv, who has written numerous...
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Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?
Science, Maths & Technology

Dolly The Sheep: What happened next?

...working with mammalian embryos for over 40 years, with some work in my lab specifically focusing on various methods of cloning cattle and other livestock species. In fact, one of the coauthors of the paper announcing Dolly worked in our laboratory for three years prior to going to Scotland to help create the famous clone. Dolly was an important milestone, inspiring...
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