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A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS
Society, Politics & Law

A woman's place is in the Union - a film by the EIS

...Social Sciences and History courses [EIS banner. purple background, with EIS in white, edged in red]Founded in 1847, the EIS is the oldest teaching union in the world. As the largest teaching union in Scotland, the EIS represents more than 60,000 members across all sectors of Education. While going through the archives and past editions of the Scottish Educational Journal...
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Video 5 mins
Introducing global development issues
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development issues

...social, economic, political, and environmental issues of our times. You will learn about key global development issues such as migration, socio-economic security, technological innovation and environmental sustainability. You’ll be introduced to a conceptual framework called PASH (power, agency, scale and history) that will help you to make sense of these issues and...
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Video 10 mins
Sanctuary Tales: Fighting Speciesism One Animal at a Time
Health, Sports & Psychology

Sanctuary Tales: Fighting Speciesism One Animal at a Time

...Social Sciences qualifications. In this film, we reflect on some of the reasons why animal sanctuaries are needed. Other animals are often victims of neglect or harm, due to how humans perceive and use them, such as for food and clothing. Sanctuaries such as Hillside provide us with a unique insight into how animals can survive these difficult circumstances, and go on to...
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Video 15 mins
Turn your bank holiday into a badged holiday
Miscellaneous

Turn your bank holiday into a badged holiday

...social media. 100% free online learning Earn a digital badge you can show off Flexible study in your own time So instead of chasing down missing screws in the DIY aisle or finding out you left the picnic at home, spend your bank holiday earning something future-you will thank you for. Free courses. Free learning. Free badges. Our most popular badged courses Not sure where...
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Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms
Education & Development

Using Talk Factory for Speaking and Listening in Classrooms

...work, named ‘voices of our generation’ to help students to convey and justify their own opinions, and question the opinions of others, on topics such as ‘social media’ and ‘education’. Talk Factory was also used on the interactive whiteboard to support whole class discussions, and the app was used on iPads, by students, during group discussions and during an...
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From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...work due to long-term sickness (Powell, 2024). The UK, therefore, is increasingly sick, and demand for health care and treatment far outstrips the availability of services. But we cannot rely on the NHS to solve this. Important as the NHS is in treating and curing disease when it arises, it is not built to address the underlying factors contributing to the UK’s...
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Article 5 mins
Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...Working with their communities, schools might draw on these varied experiences to encourage students to consider the shared nature of human suffering and motivations for war across time and place. This has relevance to learning in many areas of the curriculum, including History, PHSE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education) and Religious Studies. It can help...
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From boom to bust: the AI winter
Digital & Computing

From boom to bust: the AI winter

...work behind the scenes of our everyday lives; and the field was going to take a giant leap forward by returning to a maligned technology from the past. From the mid-1980s onwards perceptrons, unfairly dismissed as another discredited technology, began to make a comeback as the building blocks for artificial neural networks - a technology inspired by the structure of...
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