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‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds
Education & Development

‘Nobody can say to me that I can’t do it’: Exploring the study journey of female students from South Asian backgrounds

...religion in defining the experience of female students from South Asian backgrounds. While none of the participants reported experiences of racism or micro-aggressions, their narratives spoke of a lack of visibility of themselves and their lives in their overall university experience. Several factors were identified that supported students’ learning including the online...
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How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How does online intergroup contact compare with face-to-face?

...religion, sexuality, disability, gender, etc. While Allport’s focus was exclusively on interpersonal contact, further study extended this idea of contact to include extended contact, particularly vicarious contact, where individuals observe contact between members of different groups, rather than directly experiencing contact themselves. [Two children playing together.]...
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What is Critical Race Theory?
Education & Development

What is Critical Race Theory?

...religion, ability/disability, among others, combine to create different modes of privilege/discrimination and advantage/disadvantage. Recently, CRT has become a controversial theory and approach in the UK. The Department for Education has opposed the teaching of CRT in schools (September 2020) and the current UK government debated the teaching of CRT in schools in the...
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History How-to videos: Decoding medals
History & The Arts

History How-to videos: Decoding medals

...War. And the bars on the medal? Well these relate to specific battles in Laings Nek and Belfast in South Africa. So he was a rifleman in the Boer War and he served with distinction during two campaigns. It was easy to find that out once we knew the regiment, and you can get that information even from a photograph, as long as it’s got a uniform or even a cap badge. Audio...
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Contemporary Issues in Finance
Money & Business

Contemporary Issues in Finance

...La Rue and ABN Amro offer insights into the various issues surrounding risk – what kinds of risk their companies are concerned with; how those risks are managed; their companies' differing attitudes to those risks. The album also explores developments in single currency, pension scheme deficits and corporate governance and explains what’s meant Forward Rate Agreement...
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Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...Religion in secularist France is a private matter, and should not be celebrated in public places like schools. Religion in multicultural Britain is a community matter and should be respected by public institutions like schools. The education policy in each of the four UK nations is different, since education is a devolved political matter. There are many interesting...
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Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is it so difficult for Muslim women to play sport?

...religion. These are known as Sunnah from the Arabic word meaning ‘tradition’ but for Muslims it means ‘the way of the prophet’, therefore Sunnah sports. [A young child stands at the beginning of a track with hands on her hips looking ahead determinedly. She has a yellow track bib on and 'BP13' is marked in black on a background of red. ] Nowadays I see a lot of...
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Languages

Get ready for beginners’ French

...la francophonie (2018) ‘Qui parle francais dans le monde?’ [Online]. Available at http://observatoire.francophonie.org/ qui-parle-francais-dans-le-monde (Accessed: 22 February 2022)...Week 1: Why French?: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Elodie Vialleton, with contributions from Kate Fairbairn. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs