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Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993
Society, Politics & Law

Remembering the Timex Dundee struggles 1993

...education for all of us. When you’re involved in a struggle it’s something that changes your mindset, and you see yourself as part of something bigger than just your specific workplace. “These women understood that. They were women who had fought for years to provide for their families, they were strong and feisty women, and they used that strength in this dispute...
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Modelling the planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Modelling the planets

...Education, about her route to astrobiology, her current research and where her work might go in the future...Find out more about The Open University's Science courses and qualifications. Astrobiology isn’t a subject on the school curriculum or even in many universities. Could you tell me something about your journey to astrobiology? It was a long journey. A very long...
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The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children
Health, Sports & Psychology

The impact of online media reporting of family crimes on children

...educational attainment (Kincaid et al., 2019). These risk factors reflect a variety of complex processes including children being separated from their parent and the disturbance this causes; financial struggles; stigma and difficulties in trying to keep in contact with the imprisoned parent (Murray & Farrington, 2008). It can be extremely traumatic for a child to watch...
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The greatest composers you’ve never heard of
History & The Arts

The greatest composers you’ve never heard of

...education. As a result, many people have never heard a single piece by a woman composer, let alone know their names. In this article, and also in the accompanying video, we’ll be sharing the stories of a range of nineteenth-century women composers: who they were, what they composed, and what they achieved in their lifetimes. [Laura Hamer ] Transcript Fanny Hensel (born...
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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...technology has improved, we have tried to construct software systems that can deal with larger and more complex problems. In order to provide such solutions, the software systems themselves have become larger and more complex. Unfortunately there is a limit to how much we can take in and understand at any one time. The Romans had a strategy called divide et impera –...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...technology. While the specific arguments that Ellul makes with regard to technology continue to be important if somewhat dated in the twenty-first century, his more subtle arguments relating to ‘techniques’ and the corresponding shifts they cause in, most notably, justice as it is understood within a capitalist context, remain relevant. Figure 6 Jacques Ellul...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Design thinking
Science, Maths & Technology

Design thinking

...technology had been developed sufficiently, and the things were made available, we discovered we ‘needed’ mobile phones. But the first mobile phones were very big to carry around, so we designed smaller mobile phones. Then we realised it would be handy to listen to music and take pictures and surf the Web on our phones, so a new generation of mobile phones was...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Chinese)

...Education and Employment (DfEE) (2000) The Teaching Assistant’s File: Induction Training For Teaching Assistants, DfEE, London. Dillow, C. (2010) Supporting Stories: Being a Teaching Assistant, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books. Education and Training Inspectorate (ETI) (2002) Chief Inspector’s Report 1999–2002 [Online], Bangor, Department of Education. Available at...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs