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What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?
Languages

What makes it hard for migrants to learn the language of their new home?

...public debates about linguistic shirkers – migrants who fail to learn English and are assumed to do so because they are too lazy, too obstinate or too antagonistic towards their new country – have been around since the 18th century. Ironically, for a long time German immigrants were seen as the most notorious linguistic shirkers of them all; Benjamin Franklin famously...
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Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period
History & The Arts

Deconstructing the Moors: black presence in the United Kingdom before and during the Tudor period

...Publication. Lane-Poole, S. (1886) The Story of the Moors in Spain: A History of the Moorish Empire in Europe: Their Conquest, Book of Laws and Code of Rites. Paris: Pantanos Classics. Osuloga, D. (2021) Black and British: A Forgotten History. London: Pan Publishing. Rahn, O. (2006) Crusade Against the Grail: The Struggle between the Cathars, the Templars, and the Church...
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Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Artificial intelligence: implications for social work writing

...publications/the-emerging-use-of-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-social-work/ (Accessed: 23 January 2026). Lillis T., Leedham M. & Twiner A. (2017) ‘“If it’s not written down it didn’t happen”: Contemporary social work as a writing intensive profession’, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 14(1), pp. 29–52. Available at:
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Why teach art?
Education & Development

Why teach art?

...public authority do influence both parental and student value judgements. This may explain why, according to some critics, disciplines such as art and music have been given a comparatively marginal status within many school curricular including topics in the National Curriculum for England. The following activity might be useful in testing and reflecting on this...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research
Education & Development

Learning to teach: an introduction to classroom research

...public If the output is public then it can contribute to the ‘sum of knowledge’. However, if the results of the piece of work are to be made public, people need to be confident that this new knowledge is based on reliable evidence, that the conclusions are valid and that the research has been carried out properly. The advantage of conducting research is that it is...
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Level 3: Advanced 5 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...public and some of the curators may have witnessed the object’s arrival in the museum. An identification From your work on the collections database of the British Museum, you will have correctly identified the object. Further research in the museum and elsewhere could doubtless reveal more information...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: 5 Life cycle:...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Employee engagement
Money & Business

Employee engagement

...health problems … and lots of others Vincent, 42 Meat industry since 1989 I work in the meat-cutting sector. For reasons of hygiene the temperature must be between 4 and 6 degrees. But the humidity level remains around 60% These two constraints together with the fast production rate mean that we end up sweating heavily in a cold, damp atmosphere. So, either you get used...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Historical perspectives on race
History & The Arts

Historical perspectives on race

...public to engage in the then current social Darwinist debates about human difference. In Britain, many professional anthropologists had close associations with live human exhibitions until the early twentieth century, when scholarship demanded that research of Indigenous peoples was carried out in their own environment. In this session, you will consider two contrasting...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs