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Assessing contemporary science
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing contemporary science

...et al., 2009). To do this, we need to develop generic skills that can be applied across the sciences. In practice, science is not just one thing. Scientific knowledge is produced by scientists working in a vast array of sub-disciplines (Schummer, 2009). In this short course you will encounter, among others: conservation biologists working to better understand how animals,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

...et al. (eds), Mammalian Hibernation III. 1967 Oliver and Boyd Figure 21 (a) A bat in position for thermography (dorsal side uppermost) showing the location of the interscapular region (red), and the major temperatures prevailing at the commencement of thermographic scannings, (b) Thermogram of the dorsal surface of a bat during its arousal from torpor. (The higher the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Working in groups and teams
Money & Business

Working in groups and teams

...et al: A team can … achieve what none of the individuals within it can do alone; with the right dynamic, a collection of ordinary individuals can achieve extraordinary feats. But the converse can also occur: a team can fail to achieve what any of its members could easily accomplish. (Source: Mabey et al, 1998) The challenge of learning how to make teams work begins with...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...et al., 1978). The procedure has eight episodes, designed to expose infants to increasing amounts of stress in order to observe how they organise their attachment behaviours with their parents when distressed by: being in an unfamiliar environment, the entrance of an unfamiliar adult, and brief separations from the parent. Box 1: The Strange Situation Test This assessment...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...et al. 2015) raises precisely this question: how are teacher attitudes towards linguistic diversity related to the expectations they hold of their students? While the study does not actually go on to examine a link between teacher expectations and student performance, the results of the study are not pretty: The researchers found that three-quarters of all the 674...
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Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway
Languages

Explore the baking and culture of Europe: Norway

...et bredt utvalg av tradisjonelle brød og kaker i Norge, og det sies at nordmenn sannsynligvis spiser mer brød enn noen andre europeere. Norsk brød er vanligvis laget av hvete eller rugmel. Mange er overrasket over å finne at potet er også en vanlig ingrediens i noen tradisjonelle norske oppskrifter, spesielt lefse. Norwegian Skolebrød er en favoritt blandt bade...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...et al. (2012) ‘Psychiatry beyond the current paradigm’, The British Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 201, pp.430–434. British Psychological Society (2013) Time for a Paradigm Shift in Psychiatric Diagnosis Horwitz, Allan and Wakefield, Jerome, (2007) The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder, Oxford: Oxford University Press....
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Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred
History & The Arts

Christmas at war: 1915 - A wish deferred

...et decorum est pro patria mori", but if it is sweet and decorous to die for one's country, in a stuill higher degree is it to perish in defence of the eternal principles of justice and humanity, without which "The pillar'd firmament is rottenness And earth's base built on stubble" There is, too, our duty to the children, that perennial source of hope and joy, without...
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