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Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...learn from home educators, as education departments across the world develop more inclusive practices in line with the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. However, for some families in the UK, it seems that home education is a response to the current reality of schooling. The UK government acknowledges this in their listed reasons why families may choose to...
Happy GeoWeek!
Nature & Environment

Happy GeoWeek!

...Learn more about how to read rocks and discover the different types of rocks with our handy videos and tools...GeoWeek aims to promote 'active geoscience' with a range of fieldwork activities taking place in the UK. It hopes to introduce the public to geosciencee via outdoor activities such as urban, rural or coastal fieldwork. You can find out more on the GeoWeek...
Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?
OpenLearn Ireland

Intuitive eating: a new relationship with food, or another fad diet?

...learn more, or it could be that you really want a change and are tired of your relationship with food. To connect with your body and become friends with it again can be life changing in so many ways . How is our relationship with food formed?Eating behaviour shown on social media platforms appears divided, with many influencers sharing their exercise and restrictive...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...learn more about the abolitionist idea 1. Why call for abolition and not prison reform? Over the last 200 years, many societies have experimented with various prison reform interventions. Yet no reform initiative has ever improved the effectiveness of the prison. Moreover, the foundations on which imprisonment is based are fundamentally flawed. Prisons are designed to...
Equity-based research design
Education & Development

Equity-based research design

...Learning Together in Higher Education, 18. Available at: https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss18/1 (Accessed: 23 April 2025). Flinders, D.J. (1992) ‘In search of ethical guidance: constructing a basis for dialogue’, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 5(2), pp. 101–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/0951839920050202 (Accessed:...
An expert’s take on AI
Digital & Computing

An expert’s take on AI

...learning, is based on something called a ‘neural net’, which is a model of how the brain works, in a very simplistic way. It’s based on training huge amounts of data into a software system – the neural net – which mimics a human brain and it learns by picking up this training, repeating it and testing it, and then, if it works, fine! If it doesn’t work, you...
Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?
Languages

Hearing Race: Can language use lead to racism?

...learning to ‘codeswitch’ or ‘styleswitch’ to the more societally acceptable SE in certain contexts. Much like that of Obama mentioned above, learning how to switch from one set of language systems to another seems to convince certain groups of your ability to belong as well as your educational ability. Final thoughts The stigmatisation of mixed languages or...
Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support
Health, Sports & Psychology

Black and Minority Ethnic students: Mental wellbeing and study support

...Learning Achievement and Mental Health (BLAM) A community outreach organisation working to share pragmatic solutions to social issues in London through events, projects and public forums. https://blamuk.org/ Black Thrive Black Thrive is a partnership between communities, statutory organisations, the voluntary, and private sector working to reduce the inequality and...