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Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport
Health, Sports & Psychology

Pushing through the speed barrier: trailblazing women in motorsport

...technology in 2019. Depending on the type of racing, track and series, with improved support, training, and equality in opportunities, this gap can certainly close over time and the likes of Sells and Carrasco have already proved they can set the pace. Now is the time to jump on board as this unstoppable wave of talent and opportunity continues to build, promising a...
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Article 10 mins
Reparations for slavery in Barbados
Education & Development

Reparations for slavery in Barbados

...Technology transfer Debt cancellation The (brief) arguments For: Slavery created vast amounts of wealth for the colonisers, the planters and the white elite (see Williams, 1944) Continuing legacy of slavery (inequality of land distribution and wealth distribution) Compensation paid to slave owners Slavery is endemic in economic and political structures Against: Source of...
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Waste management and environmentalism in China
Nature & Environment

Waste management and environmentalism in China

...technology is increasingly being used to extract energy from food waste...Waste management and environmentalism in China: Strategy 3: Improving technology - Burning or incinerating MSW dramatically reduces the volume of waste to be dealt with and is an important way of dealing with the waste problem in China. However, a modern plant should not be designed just with mass...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
How do empires work?
History & The Arts

How do empires work?

...technology. Its sheer density of industrial development meant Europe was now always one step ahead. In the First Anglo-Chinese War, the paddle steamer Nemesis blew Chinese junks out of the water, and Chinese matchlocks were no match for European flintlock guns. By the late nineteenth century, Europeans were introducing rifled guns (lined with ridges that increase...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance
History & The Arts

Who gets to be a human? Religion in colonial histories and Indigenous resistance

...educational, and religious institutions. Activity 1 Am I one of ‘us’ or one of ‘them’? Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes to complete this activity. Take a moment to reflect on who you include when you think of ‘us’ and who you imagine as ‘them.’ Consider your participation in these groups. Did you choose to be part of them, or were you included by...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction
Digital & Computing

Managing complexity: A systems approach – introduction

...technology education and in education for sustainable development; (d) practice – whether in conducting an analysis or being professional. There are a number of responses available to Schön's invitation to descend into the swamp of messy, confusing problems. Russell Ackoff uses the term messes to refer to the swamp, and difficulties to refer to the high ground. You may...
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Level 3: Advanced 75 hrs
The science of nuclear energy
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of nuclear energy

...technology has progressed enough to enable us to see atoms. Figure 1 was produced with a type of microscope that enables us to distinguish individual gold atoms. Different types of atoms combine in a number of ways to form the varying substances of matter. You might think there would need to be a huge number of different sorts of atoms to account for all the substances...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...education system, and so on. But speech changes all the time and, eventually, written language will start to accommodate some of the changes that are taking place in the spoken language. You just have to listen to people talking English now to know that spoken language changes much more readily than written language. Think of grandparents and the problems they sometimes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs