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A global dimension to science education in schools
Education & Development

A global dimension to science education in schools

...Communicate?'. View document Click this link to go to Science Across the World. Activity 3 In this activity you look at and test ready-to-use classroom activities that bring a global perspective to the science curriculum. First, choose three activities from the resources above. These include articles on housing in Saudi Arabia, the effect of obtaining resources required...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...communal issue and a public administrative matter. For example, there may be enormous pressure on beds in a ward where someone is dying – the pressure for the administrators of the hospital is to have a high turnover of patients to ensure that targets for treatment are met. One result of this is that people who exceed the medical expectations of their prognoses become...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Business ethics
History & The Arts

Business ethics

...communities in which they operate, and so on? Questions to which Alex Oliver should know the answers: he runs The Forum for Philosophy in Business at Cambridge University. Audio Text David Edmonds: This is Ethics Bites, with me David Edmonds Nigel Warburton: And me Nigel Warburton David: Ethics Bites is a series of interviews on applied ethics, produced in association...
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Audio 15 mins
Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?
Society, Politics & Law

Ahead of Super Tuesday, what have we learned about the candidates?

...Las Vegas, the state’s largest city. Clinton’s strength in heavily urban Clark County bodes well for her chances in large urban states like New York, California and Illinois. 3. Liberal economists side with Clinton Clinton also benefits from liberal intellectuals' growing criticism of the Vermont senator’s economic proposals. Last week a group of highly regarded...
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Article 5 mins
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...orally active analgesic that is as effective as morphine in relieving pain, but without the risks of addiction and unacceptable side-effects...Drug development process: combating pain: 2.3 Steroid drugs - Steroids were some of the earliest naturally produced endogenous structures discovered and they play an important part in many fields of medicine, including fertility...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...community life or social capital, very similar relationships, closely related to inequality. I may say we did all this work twice. We did it first on these rich developed countries. And then as a separate test bed, we repeated it all on the 50 American states, asking just the same question, do the more unequal states do worse on all these kinds of measures? So here is...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Equity – law and idea
Society, Politics & Law

Equity – law and idea

...communities ought to live in better, fairer and more equal ways. As a collection of virtues that expect or demand something better, this ‘equity’ will be considered in terms of its capability to disrupt normative social conditions and practices, including mainstream legal reasoning. This radical twist to equity equates in part to Davina Cooper’s ‘everyday...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...communicated and taken up over time. Rogers’ work is important because it emphasises that the innovation itself is not the only determinant of its ‘success’. There must also be communication channels, time and a social system in place to enable the innovation to be used and adopted more and more widely. Rogers also identifies the different categories of adopters:...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs