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Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...system of units) known as SI. The SI unit of length, for example, is the metre (m), and the SI unit for time is the second (s). Example: What is 1000 metres in SI form? The prefix for one ‘thousand’ is ‘kilo’, so the answer is one kilometre (1 km in shortened form). One thousand metres, one kilometre and 1 km are alternative ways of describing the same thing....
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...think are important for students to learn about? An over-reliance on test results may lead teachers to make generalisations and judgements about a pupil’s capability in all aspects of a subject, based on the formal testing of a subset. For example, a National Curriculum level tells us nothing about a pupil’s problem-solving ability or creativity, nor about their...
Innovation in health and social care practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Innovation in health and social care practice

...system? What are the main concerns or limitations to WhatsApp? Discussion WhatsApp is used to ask an opinion, share results or get advice from a colleague, or to upload photos or information describing a patient's issue in order to get advice. In crises and emergencies, communicating via instant messaging can be useful. As an advantage, instant messaging allows you to...
Stereotypes
Languages

Stereotypes

...a national stereotypes in the context of England and Germany, and then consider different definitions of stereotypes and engage with some theoretical positions and current thinking on the topic. You will also read about examples of the kinds of stereotypes about our own cultures that all of us encounter every day. Work through these articles and activities on stereotypes...
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Week 1 Civilisations: The debate
History & The Arts

Week 1 Civilisations: The debate

...a response in the Comments section below. I'd like to start just by asking what you think of Episode 1 and what your hopes and expectations are for the series as a whole. Why remake Civilisation now, as Civilisations in the plural, and what do you hope the series will accomplish? If it was your job to remake Kenneth Clark's Civilisation now, in 2018, how would you do it?...
Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women
History & The Arts

Election days: 1908 - Churchill challenged by the women

...think sincerely that the women have always had a logical case, and they have now got behind them a great popular demand among women. "It is no longer a movement of a few extravagant and excitable people, but a movement which is gradually spreading to all classes of women, and, that being so, it assumes the same character as franchise movements have previously assumed. "I...
Just six numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Just six numbers

...think it was the work of some sort of benign creator. Martin interprets this evidence differently. If we imagine that our Big Bang wasn't the only one, then naturally there would be some which have the requisite tuning for life to emerge, and we find ourselves in just that Universe. If there were many Big Bangs it shouldn't come as any surprise that in some of them the...
Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration
Society, Politics & Law

Using art and creative methods to interrogate identity, citizenship and migration

...particularly if you are interested in thinking about what participation means today, what national, supra-national and local identities mean, and how research is relevant for our everyday lives. This connects to many of the current and future modules in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, but will be of interest to those of you with other study interests as well....