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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...human action and interaction. Change in one institutional sphere will impact on other institutional spheres. (Leftwich and Sen, 2011) This valuably suggests that when looking at institutions with a view to changing them – changing the rules and norms – you need to look for these connections. You need in fact to see the whole institutional landscape in which the change...
Teaching citizenship: work and the economy
Education & Development

Teaching citizenship: work and the economy

...human rights and responsibilities underpinning society, and to appreciate the economic implications of the world as a global community, and the role of the European Union and the United Nations in fostering this. In addition, the same document charges Key stage 4 citizenship teaching to deal with how the economy functions (including the role of business and financial...
Talk the talk
Education & Development

Talk the talk

...resources such as TED Talk videos, you will see how experts deliver professional talks and famous speeches, observe what works, and identify how language connects ideas and keeps a listener engaged...This hands-on course will give you the skills and knowledge you need to create and deliver confident presentations and speeches. This free course introduces the mechanics of...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 1: What is burnout?: Introduction - It was a combination of many things; sport, travelling, studies, trying to maintain personal relationships … everything together, it just did not work. I wanted to do everything too good and I pushed myself so far that I...
COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

COVID-19: Immunology, vaccines and epidemiology

...humans, and for this reason they are a very important group of pathogens. It would be impossible in a short course to cover the great range of viruses that cause disease in humans. However, we can look at the life-cycle of a typical virus infection in Video 2. DAVID MALE: The diagram shows a generalised virus life-cycle. In step-1: A virus infects a cell by attaching to...
Why has violence been escalating in Mali during 2015?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has violence been escalating in Mali during 2015?

...Human Rights Watch (HRW), several armed groups have increased violence against civilians accused of supporting French and UN troops deployed in the country. Small groups of Islamists and some Tuareg groups wedded to independence have managed to remain active and carried out occasional attacks in the desert. HRW says that continuing criminal violence by these groups, as...
How we found gravitational waves
Science, Maths & Technology

How we found gravitational waves

...human hair. This is because the signal from a gravitational wave from far out in the cosmos is mind-bogglingly small by the time it reaches us. As if detecting this were not difficult enough, all manner of local disturbances on Earth make it worse, from the ground shaking to power-grid fluctuations; and instrumental “noises” that could mimic or indeed completely swamp...
What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?
Science, Maths & Technology

What's so exciting about gravitational waves being discovered?

...matter and the remaining 65% being dark energy, with the latter two being called “dark” as we don’t understand what they are. Gravitational waves may now provide a tool with which to probe these mysteries in a similar way that X-rays and MRI have allowed us to probe the human body. This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....