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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...change from £10.00...Week 1: Teaching and learning: whole numbers and decimals: 2.2 Mental addition and subtraction strategies - Using number bonds can help with mental addition calculations because numbers can be split up to make the tens or hundreds number and then the extra can be added on. Activity 3 Adding large numbers mentally Timing: Allow 5 minutes Try these...
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Was British business always planning for Brexit?
Money & Business

Was British business always planning for Brexit?

...changes in diversification and internationalisation – the two fundamental dimensions of corporate strategy. We collected 1993-2010 data for 5,415 firms in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as the mid-sized northern and southern European economies of Sweden, Finland, Italy, and Spain. Our data covers all publicly listed non-financial firms. In a nutshell,...
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How do you become British Prime Minister?
Society, Politics & Law

How do you become British Prime Minister?

...changes at the next election. They do so even under a different Prime Minister who emerges within a parliament, not following an election. A new Prime Minister can thus take office within a parliament – in between elections – when an incumbent stands down. This happened in 1990, when John Major replaced Margaret Thatcher; in 2007, when Gordon Brown replaced Tony...
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What do tests tell us?
Education & Development

What do tests tell us?

...change. 18 year olds with UK qualifications can go to university in Europe - it can be significantly cheaper. Or they can go to the USA - it might be much easier to get a scholarship. In today’s increasingly global world then international comparisons of tests are becoming more important to parents and young people – as well as governments. One of the ideas put...
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Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should the NHS try a Dutch model for social care?

...changing on a day-to-day basis depending on what the patient needs. Nurses work in teams of ten, each serving a particular community and working closely with local GPs and services. They see themselves as having a key social function of identifying and building relationships within the community. Buurtzorg says that not only are patients happier but so are staff – it...
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Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?
History & The Arts

Did Waterloo prevent a fresh Anglo-American war?

...changes which have occurred in the immediate vicinity of this country, our most serious consideration would have been attracted by what has occurred on the other side of the Atlantic. Under other circumstances, we should have seen with uneasiness and sorrow (alarm is out of the question), the unfriendly, or rather the decidedly hostile feeling towards this country, which...
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Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "Romantic, in the sense of the romantic poets"

...changes in perception that had striking implications. Sacks was not the originator of this form of writing, nor did he claim to be. He drew his inspiration from the great neuropsychologist Alexander Luria but while Luria’s cases were known to a select group of specialists, Sacks wrote for the general public, and opened up neurology to the everyday world. Despite...
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What is the zika virus?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is the zika virus?

...changed its behaviour in other ways, spreading faster, spreading sexually, and also lumbering some survivors with the nasty post-viral Guillain-Barré Syndrome. Although GBS can be fatal, the worst GBS manifestation in recovered Zika patients so far has been a partial temporary paralysis. Based on previous experience, Zika would have seemed an unlikely candidate for the...
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