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Supporting female performance in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting female performance in sport and fitness

...change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. (Ruth Bader Ginsberg) The delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo were the first Games where equal numbers of events and medals were available to females and males. The gap in the number of competitors has started to even out with around 52% athletes competing in male events and 48% in female events. In the 2020s there has...
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...change in the shape of a word. English itself was originally more inflected than it is today, and still retains some examples, as we shall see later. Word order Where English says ‘Brutus murdered Caesar’, Greek and Latin prefer the word order ‘Brutus Caesar murdered’. Indeed they have the option of placing the words in any order without altering the meaning of...
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace Badge icon
Money & Business

Diversity and inclusion in the workplace

...changes to the way we operate, and we need to explain why we’re making those changes and why it’s good for everyone. And so if we’re making a tweak to a process, we need to bring people on board with why we’re making the tweak, test it, make sure that it works within our organisation, then roll it out, and we re-affirming why we’re doing it, and then be...
Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas
Science, Maths & Technology

Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas

...change formulas round...Starting with maths: Patterns and formulas: 1 Exploring patterns and processes - Suppose you are tiling a bathroom or kitchen and the last row of square tiles is to be a frieze made up of blank tiles and patterned tiles as shown below. [Figure 1] Figure 1 A friend has offered to help. How would you describe the pattern and how to arrange the tiles?...
Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts
Society, Politics & Law

Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts

...changes as we switch from considering production data to trade data. The production figures rank India as producing the most cotton, followed by China and the US. When using the trade figures China exports the most cotton, USA second and India third. Why might the production and trade figures vary? Answer Countries that produce cotton do not necessarily export all their...
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...change in thinking that you will experience as you progress in your studies can also be difficult, but are worth the effort. We particularly hope that you will find ideas that will be of practical benefit. This course has been designed to lead you on a journey of understanding. It begins with seeing why thinking skills are important in education, and what kinds of skills...
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...change within an educational institution...Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through: 1 Competing views of school - [Speech bubble with the text: ‘Where did you learn that?’] This course is premised on a belief that we can all take actions within our everyday working lives which contribute to the overall development of equality, participation and inclusion....
An introduction to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to software development

...changes over its life-cycle, with changes often triggered by changes in context and in stakeholders’ needs. As a consequence, software development activities typically carry on post-deployment as new releases of the software are developed and deployed. Activity 3 Do a web search for ‘software development processes’. Name three such processes that recur in your...