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School geography: Exploring a definition
Education & Development

School geography: Exploring a definition

...project. Audio 1 These tasks can be done on your own, but they are best done in a group, if possible. Draw your own ‘map’ of geography, referring to the resource on 'Mapping geography' above. Do you consider there to be a ‘chasm’ between geography as a discipline and the teaching of geography in school? What is your initial reaction to: the Today programme...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
How places affect well-being
Health, Sports & Psychology

How places affect well-being

...project’) in Chicago, US. In this estate, residents were housed in tower blocks, pictured below. Some of the blocks had no trees surrounding them (pictured on the left) and some blocks were surrounded by trees (pictured on the right). This provided a comparison between women whose everyday views from their home included nature, and those who did not. This is known as a...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Rugby: A game of risk and reward
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rugby: A game of risk and reward

...manage the risk”. MacLean and Hutchinson (2012) conducted an audit of U19 player admissions to spinal injury units in Great Britain and Ireland. They found that U19 rugby players sustained serious neck injuries requiring admission to spinal injury units with a low but persistent frequency, with the rate of admission in Scotland being “disproportionately high”. The...
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Article 10 mins
Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is a technological solution always the best? The politics of toilets

...management and help their own communities, the Gates Foundation wants to build things that negate the need for public sanitation systems as we know them. The Nano Membrane Toilet is also subject to the “appropriate technology” critique. Appropriate technology is an approach developed in the 70s that asked technologists, engineers, and, designers to consider the larger...
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Article 5 mins
Displaced children of our time
Education & Development

Displaced children of our time

...manage the crossing arrive, though, are deeply inadequate. [A family sit on the edge of a boat on the beach, smiling - having arrived on the Greek island of Kos. ] Refugees from Iraq arrive on the Greek island of Kos The shipwrecks and deaths in 2015 led to a brief shift in public opinion around migration in the UK and across Europe. British newspapers which are routinely...
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Article 10 mins
Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?
Languages

Do enforced language tests help migrants integrate more smoothly?

...managed a very successful immigration and settlement program since the 1940s, the current conservative government and their supporters in the media, and especially the Minister for Immigration, Peter Dutton, have linked the risk of terrorism with new immigrant and refugee communities. A recent government policy change outlined in a document called ‘Strengthening the...
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Article 5 mins
Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?
Nature & Environment

Why is New Delhi experiencing ever-worsening periods of smog?

...management policy encourages incineration and already three waste-to-energy plants are functional with three more in the pipeline. Public protests and litigation against the use of waste incinerators have been ignored and the plants continue to burn unsegregated waste. It took a Supreme Court order, earlier this year, to stop the use of petroleum coke or petcoke — a...
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Article 5 mins
Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people
Society, Politics & Law

Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people

...manage? According to the American Psychological Association (2014) resilience is “the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress”. However, several scholars including Southwick et al. (2016) argue that resilience is much more complex and that its determinants could include a range of biological,...
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Article 10 mins