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Surface water
Nature & Environment

Surface water

...writing (2004) the dam was near completion. The scheme is enormously popular with the dam contractors and with political parties in those local Indian states which will benefit from the extra water and electricity. It is also popular with those who have had to walk miles to collect water each day and who do not have enough water to irrigate their crops. It is not popular,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Asset allocation in investment
Money & Business

Asset allocation in investment

...writing was for portfolios from June 2015. You can also access up to date information on FTSE WMA Private investor index series asset allocation. Table 3: FTSE/WMA model portfolio as at June 2015 MODEL PORTFOLIO Conservative (%) Income (%) Balanced (%) Growth(%) Underlying asset index UK equities 19 35 37.5 40 FTSE All-Share Non-UK equities 11 17.5 30 37.5 FTSE All World....
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers
Education & Development

Learning to teach: mentoring and tutoring student teachers

...writing books and teaching materials for practitioners in the school sector, or involvement in large national research projects. (adapted Murray, 2008) Across all of Murray’s points it is possible to identify the common thread of knowledge creation, dissemination and questioning. For her, a tutor is someone who is at all times aware of the assumptions, beliefs and...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?
Education & Development

Early adopters: What are smartphones doing to children?

...write Jenny Radesky and her colleague Barry Zuckerman in their study of digital play. Children this young are still developing the ability to choose what to pay attention to and what to ignore, and they have trouble generalising from symbolic representations to the real world. Preschool-aged children need to interact with actual physical objects in order to develop their...
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Article 5 mins
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...write that ‘the most basic … architectonic distinction that structure[s] the law of war is the radical separation of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello . The lawfulness of war has no bearing on the proper conduct of war’ (2008, p. 20). It is often suggested that the JaB and JiB conditions also apply most directly to different groups of people. Statesmen and politicians...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ymarfer corff ac iechyd meddwl

...Creative Commons). Gweld y Telerau ac Amodau. Delwedd y cwrs: Natalie Lucier ar Flickr ar gael dan Drwydded Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Ffigur 1: © Inga Spence/Alamy Peidiwch â cholli’r cyfle: Os ydych chi wedi cael eich ysbrydoli i gael gwybod mwy trwy ddarllen y testun hwn, efallai y bydd gennych ddiddordeb mewn ymuno â'r miliynau o bobl sy’n darganfod ein...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
The technology of crime control
Society, Politics & Law

The technology of crime control

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence This extract is taken from D315: Crime, order and social control, produced by the BBC on behalf of the Open University. © 2007 The Open University. Course image: Trey Ratcliff in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Licence. Don't miss out: If reading this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image Adapted courtesy © Mary Quandt and Neil Mitchell. Text Activity...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs