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Exploring equality and equity in education
Education & Development

Exploring equality and equity in education

...thinks of ‘equality’ in education What do you see as the dimensions of equality which you consider important? Now think about an educational context with which you are familiar. This might be the institution in which you practise or an institution you attended, or one which a member of your family attends. What does achieving equity for learners need to look like in...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...think I see plainly the cropping out of the original rock on which his own finer stratum was laid. The first play was written by a superior, thoughtful man, with a vicious ear. I can mark his lines, and know well their cadence. See Wolsey's soliloquy, and the following scene with Cromwell, where,--instead of the metre of Shakespeare, whose secret is, that the thought...
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Article 15 mins
Science and society: A career and professional development course
Education & Development

Science and society: A career and professional development course

...system in the UK often requires scientists to focus on core science subjects at the expense of learning about the social and ethical implications of their work. How then does a modern scientist begin to engage with these important issues? One solution is to provide opportunities for practising scientists to recognise social and ethical aspects of their work, and to...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...system is. It will download it. And you can see how the colour is starting to show when the file is being downloaded. If you can see at the bottom of the screen also, you will see English, but once you click on that-- that has been installed now, so I can just close that window. And at the bottom of my screen, I have a Word document open. I see English, if I click on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...system at all the depots of a supermarket chain. Answer a.This involves a set of routine tasks that the organisation must be equipped to perform; hence it would be carried out by an operational team. b.This is likely to involve a project team structure. Inputs to formulating the strategy would be needed from various areas, plus professional and technical inputs. c.Inputs...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ratting out disease: How animals are detecting disease - and other threats to life

...thinking: might animal noses be quicker, or more accurate, and/or cheaper – and so able to be used more widely – than some high-tech cancer-screening techniques? If dogs really could sniff out cancer, what other diseases might they smell? And might the noses of other animals be useful too? Over the past decade, there have been projects investigating the use of bees to...
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Article 5 mins
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...thinking it through will inform us not only about Egyptian mathematics, but also about what studying history can involve. The question arose because it seemed to suggest itself from the source material, or from our efforts to understand it. We use fractions, the Egyptians also seemed to do so, yet only in a seemingly highly restricted way which drove them into subtle and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...thinking is that efficiency, which is related to the speed and volume of output a process produces, needs to be balanced against effectiveness, or the quality of that output. In the next section, we will spend some time considering how the ideas that have been highlighted so far fit together, before moving on to consider how you can use them in your own working...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs