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Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students
Education & Development

Building belonging and mattering to achieve equity for Black STEM students

...et al., 2025). This is not a minor issue; it directly impacts confidence, engagement, and success. When students feel invisible or excluded from informal networks, their ability to thrive is compromised. If opportunities for spontaneous conversations, peer support, and informal networking are limited, the perceived isolation can be amplified for Black students. Without...
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Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity
Nature & Environment

Golden Globe Ocean Race: Global Biodiversity

...et al. 2012). Many such ecosystem functions are enhanced by increased species richness, and case studies using plants, bacteria and aquatic plants such as seagrass have all shown that the probability of an ecosystem sustaining its overall function increases as species richness increases (Gamfeldt et al. 2008). It is therefore imperative that we take care of biodiversity...
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Article 20 mins
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...et al., 2009) identified 60 definitions of innovation in organisations alone. In part, at least, these differences are a result of the different concerns of different academic disciplines, the perspectives of different stakeholders in the innovation process and the different contexts in which innovation is considered. Whereas an economist may be concerned with the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...et al. (2001) analysed the spatial distribution of unemployment and the success rates of NDYP leavers in securing jobs (see Figures 4 (a) and 4 (b)). [Figure 4] (Source: based on Sunley et al., 2001, p. 489-490, Figures 2 and 3) Figure 4 (a) Youth unemployment by New Deal areas, 1997; (b) NDYP participants moving into unsubsidised jobs by New Deal areas, as at April 2000...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Practice supervision and assessment in nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Practice supervision and assessment in nursing

...et al., 2018) which you completed in Section 2 or SWOT analysis (Carlson, 2016) are useful tools to encourage students to reflect and identify strengths, learning needs (weaknesses), opportunities and threats. It provides a baseline from which learning objectives can be established. Activity 16 Read Morrison’s (2011) article ‘SWOT analysis for Nurses and Health care...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Accessibility of eLearning
Education & Development

Accessibility of eLearning

...et al., 2014). Even a simple 30–60-second ‘talking head’ video recorded using your webcam can have a positive effect. If you deliver the video from a script, you have a ready-made transcript prepared for accessibility purposes. You can also create engaging and accessible instructional videos by use of screen capture (free tools for this are available both online and...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?
Education & Development

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

...et al., (2014) have shown readers benefit from being invited to participate in richly reciprocal and interactive reading communities, communities which include their teachers as readers. One of the challenges however, as our book highlights, is teachers’ knowledge of children’s literature. When 22% of 1200 primary phase teachers cannot or do not name a single...
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How do microplastics make their way into our food?
Nature & Environment

How do microplastics make their way into our food?

...et al 2022. Recognising that sewage sludge application introduces microplastics into soil is crucial when addressing microplastic pollution. To mitigate the potential risks associated with microplastics from sewage sludge we need to focus on advanced treatment processes, explore alternative waste management options, and enact appropriate regulations. This will result in...
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