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Creativity, community and ICT
Education & Development

Creativity, community and ICT

...variable, although it is unlikely this was an issue he was considering when he first pointed his ‘tube of long seeing’ at the moon in his garden at Padua, Italy. Although creativity is a twentieth-century word, it has an important and significant history, reaching back to Galileo's time and beyond. Interestingly, the way in which the words ‘creation’ and...
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Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...variable which determines earnings. In the first equation W M represents the earnings of men, while E M represents, say, the average number of ‘A’ levels held by men. In the second equation W F the average earnings of women, while E f is the average number of ‘A’ levels held by women. The terms a 0 and b 0 are the intercepts of the two equations. The observed...
The history of Spanish in about six minutes
Languages

The history of Spanish in about six minutes

...Rodríguez Gómez, Santiago Sánchez Moreano and Maricela Taylor. Resources Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española: https://www.asale.org/ Biblioteca Digital Hispánica: http://www.bne.es/en/Catalogos/BibliotecaDigitalHispanica/Inicio/ Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/
Space for reflection
Education & Development

Space for reflection

...class at dawn] I believe that education is not about telling children what to do but about allowing them to find out what they should do. Hence the space for reflection and self discovery has to be made in a school. This space is combined with space to make mistakes and correct them. Better to stumble and fumble in your interactions in the relatively safe environment of...
Hinglish, Pinglish, Binglish, Minglish
Education & Development

Hinglish, Pinglish, Binglish, Minglish

...kind of English gets you entry into the right kind of circles. As anywhere else in the world, class is expressed through accent and intonation. Multilingualism is our greatest strength. Our children learn a minimum of 3 languages in school. The standards are questionable no doubt, but communication is happening, and plenty of it, even if in grammatically flawed sentences....
Make it Digital
Digital & Computing

Make it Digital

...class TV, radio and online content. Make it Digital will also amplify the great work already taking place across the UK through initiatives with partners. The Open University has co-produced three programmes in the season and the first two will be aired shortly. To celebrate the season, we have pulled together content from OpenLearn to get you delving into the Digital...
Designing the Spanish nation
Languages

Designing the Spanish nation

...de la Vega, Puerta de la Mezquita, Puerta de la Sagra) to the mostly symbolic arches of the 20th century gate (Puerta de la Ilustración), Madrid has built and destroyed numerous gates in its ever expanding territories. From all the current gates in Madrid, probably most iconic are Puerta de Alcalá, Puerta del Sol, and Puerta de Toledo. Nowadays ......
The reason for low wages
Money & Business

The reason for low wages

...class. Edward McClelland charts this history in his article The ‘middle class’ myth: Here’s why wages are really so low today in The Atlantic. This history speaks to the broader underlying causes of low wages. Whereas less pay is commonly framed as an economic issue – it is also clearly attributable to political decisions. The economic and political reasons though...