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Writing family history
History & The Arts

Writing family history

...research, interviewing witnesses and relatives becomes paramount. Many pitfalls await interviewers, as well as the pleasure of getting it right. William Taylor interview: part one To demonstrate interviewing technique and responses, this track makes use of an interview with William Taylor, born in 1919. William Taylor interview: part two In the second part of his...
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Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 1614T. The European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML), which is based in Graz, Austria, has produced a number of very good training and learning materials, including some to train pupil teachers to use the ELP: Using the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL). You...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Hybrid working: starting in the workplace
Money & Business

Hybrid working: starting in the workplace

...research has shown factors such as having more children in the house can unsurprisingly negatively impact work productivity (Franken et al., 2021). Somewhere that other members of your household will not be wandering into unexpectedly is therefore going to be the optimum location for your home office. You should also take care in setting up your webcam and microphone. Not...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...research, which shows that poorer children: … go into lower sets … … so they are entered for lower tiers of examination papers … … and therefore they have to answer more ‘realistic’ test items … … so they achieve lower test results … … so they are confirmed as being appropriately placed in lower sets for mathematics … … so they may experience a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why are maggots making a comeback in hospitals?

...children are working in medicine now..." By the time Michelle Marineau saw her patient, James*, there was little she could do to help him. His big toe had been removed, a complication from years of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes, but the amputation site had stubbornly refused to heal. An infection had eaten away flesh and left tendon and bone exposed, streaks of off-white...
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Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...centre. By sheer coincidence, the ‘Big Start’ route passes close to Cherryvale Sports Ground where the tyre was tested on a bicycle, before Dunlop patented his invention in 1888. Belfast is ahead of the pack in terms of cycling as a form of commuting. Census data from 2001-2011 reports that Belfast saw a 60% rise in the number of people cycling to work, while this...
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A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West
OpenLearn Ireland

A changing uniqueness – The changing ‘place’ of the West

...centres, and especially to the West. Many of the firms successfully attracted to the West by the IDA were foreign-based, mainly in Britain and America but also Germany and Japan. They were certainly drawn by the government incentives, but also by location relative to the EU and by ‘green labour’, a workforce with no prior industrial experience or skills. This...
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The history of soapmaking
History & The Arts

The history of soapmaking

...centred in large towns like Bristol, Coventry and London, with each making its own variety. Large areas of British woodland were destroyed to meet the growing demand for wood ashes, causing a country-wide shortage of winter fuel. Italy, Spain and France also became early soap-producing centres. Plentiful supplies of high quality olive oil and barilla ashes (from which...
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