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Hip Hop and the Institution
History & The Arts

Hip Hop and the Institution

...resources, knowledge and aesthetics created by communities of Hip Hop heads without giving back anything of value to them. The Institution’s appropriation of Hip Hop has also led to divisions within the Hip Hop community, for example, when certain people and groups receive institutional funding but others are excluded. It has also exposed larger questions relating to...
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Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...resources. When children’s educational needs are not met, parents feel that promises are broken. Families feel unsupported, and relationships can break down as a result. Repeated patterns Families explained the negative experiences and broken relationships between schools and children or their parents that caused their move to home education. There were patterns in...
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Making sense of sudden mass deaths
Health, Sports & Psychology

Making sense of sudden mass deaths

...resources to support each other. While communities might pull together in the immediate aftermath, there is evidence to suggest that they will not agree on how to respond to tragedies – not least in the tension between continuous remembrance and the need to move on.Further, while communities might pull together in the immediate aftermath, there is evidence to suggest...
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Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage
History & The Arts

Aberdulais Falls: a case study in Welsh heritage

...Humanities...Aberdulais Falls: A case study in Welsh heritage: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand some of the issues surrounding natural heritage understand some of the issues surrounding industrial heritage demonstrate an awareness of why tensions often arise between conservation and the demands of modern
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Race, ethnicity and crime
Society, Politics & Law

Race, ethnicity and crime

...Human Rights Watch issued a report about racial disparities in drug arrest. And, basically, the report showed that for the last 27 years – since 1980 – the rate of Black arrests has been disproportionately higher than White arrests for drugs, ranging from 2.7 times more likely to the current average of more than five or six times more likely. And if you go from arrest...
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Level 3: Advanced 1 hr
Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems
History & The Arts

Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems

...Humanities...Schubert's Lieder: Settings of Goethe's poems: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand Schubert's place as a composer in early nineteenth-century Vienna understand the place of Schubert in the history of German song and the development of Romanticism follow the words of songs by Schubert while listening to a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...resources as all computing systems, but just at an incredible scale. This scale multiplies the cloud’s impact, both good and bad. Our job at an organisational IT level is to know how to recognise and minimise the negative, while promoting and accelerating the good. This article looks at just some of the ways cloud contributes to our digital carbon footprints from...
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Volunteering with a personal or professional focus
Education & Development

Volunteering with a personal or professional focus

...resources around children’s rights, among other things. “All of these things have been influenced by the various volunteering roles that I’ve had over the years”, she says. Sarah estimates that she spends a few hours every week on volunteering activity, but this can be flexible. “The trick is to find the right thing that can fit into your life”, Sarah says....
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