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Everyday maths 2
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2

...become more confident too. You can work through the course at your own pace. To complete the course you will need access to a calculator, notepad, pen and protractor. The course has four sessions, with a total study time of approximately 48 hours. The sessions cover the following topics: numbers, measurement, data, and shapes and space. There will be plenty of examples to...
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Free course 48 hrs
Engineering: The challenge of temperature
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: The challenge of temperature

...become loose or unstuck. The relationships between various material properties and temperature do not all follow the same trends, and there are intriguing reasons for this that we will take this opportunity to examine. We shall also be looking at the practical implications of these different kinds of relationship by working through a real-world engineering problem. This...
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Level 2: Intermediate 40 hrs
Climate change: transitions to sustainability
Nature & Environment

Climate change: transitions to sustainability

...become a regular feature of international meetings on development and/or the environment. The media's love of conflict, and the protestors' gift for creating compelling media images, underlined the sense that a very different way of looking at the world was being presented. The protestors are only the most visible expression of a line of argument that originated...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...they know they are loved and they are getting to spend this unprecedented time with you. To teachers and support staff turning up every day – whether in person or online – you are all heroes. We’ll need you more than ever when pupils and students return to schools and we step forward into post COVID-19 world. Let’s hope we remember the lessons we’ve learned....
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Article 10 mins
Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...student debts during a decade of NHS pay restraint is not the way to attract, recruit and retain the new full time staff we need. And let’s not forget, the NHS as a whole is a long way from being out of the woods. The £8bn funding agreed as part of the NHS Five Year Plan was aimed at plugging the spending gap. If the government is genuine about delivering new models of...
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Article 5 mins
Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus
Science, Maths & Technology

Measure the Astronomical Unit and watch the Transit Of Venus

...students, to school children from New Zealand to Tarleton just up the road. What are you guys up to? Female speaker We're just getting ready to measure the third contact. Female speaker How are you going to do that? Male speaker We’re going to be using stop watches. Female speaker Well we’re coiled springs here in Much Hoole. Back to you in Greenwich. Adam Thanks very...
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Activity 10 mins
'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race
Education & Development

'A Rose By Any Other Name...': The Importance of Words when it comes to Race

...student at the school before. Susan must have felt odd in a class, and indeed a school, where she was the only Black member. When we played together, she shared her annoyance at the Deputy Head having referred to her as ‘coloured’. Now I was confused. I told her that mummy had said that that was the polite way to speak. She pointed out that her skin was not ‘all...
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Article 10 mins
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...become adults?’ If not, it doesn’t matter but you cannot learn very much about youth justice without considering this question. It is going to be a focus for your learning in this session. This is because it’s a good way to start understanding many of the issues shaping youth justice practice and youth justice systems in the UK. What you think about the boundaries...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs