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Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...Religion also influences population growth, because it often promotes large families, which increase the number of people in their faith and encourage a stronger community. Some religions will even forbid the use of contraceptives by their followers, pretty much ensuring large families. And there are cultural influences that promote large families too. Having children...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...religions, appearing in the Buddhist scripture Udana, and also later in Sufi Muslim and Hindu mysticism. Saxe’s poem doesn’t explain the figures on the netsuke – it is a separate representation of the same story that inspired the carving of the netsuke. They differ in their details and emphasis: the poem reflects the arguments between the men, whereas the netsuke...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status’. Articles 3–5 set out the rights to life and liberty, and against slavery or servitude, torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Articles 6–12 lay down legal rights, to be recognised ‘as a person before the law’ and equality before the law, against...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...religion, culture, acquisition of knowledge or life experiences, yet views are rarely fixed and change over time. Read this short quote from the Department for Education (DfE): Education is the great leveller. Every single child should have access to an education that equips them with the knowledge, skills and experiences needed to fulfil their potential. Primary...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...religion”. But a visit to a Polish hospice sparked a “revolution in [her] brain”. Then she understood that palliative care is total care, she says, something that covers “all physical, psychological, spiritual and social pain”. The idea of palliative care being holistic can be traced back to Cicely Saunders, the British nurse and doctor who established the first...
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Article 15 mins
History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 1: Finding evidence of reading in the past

...religion’, make sure you tick ‘sermons’, ‘religious texts’ and ‘Bible’ to cover the range of this category. Next, you will need to arrange your results to demonstrate the proportion that each category of reading represented for each half century. Click on the button to calculate the percentage share of each category. What patterns do you see appearing in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 2 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...religions. Exploring Thugga - Part Two Exploring Thugga (part 3, 8 minutes) PHIL PERKINS: This collection of votive stones from near Thugga, provide further evidence of this process. At the top of this stone is the figure of Baal, the punic god of the sun, surrounded by sun, moon and stars. But he’s also holding a thunder bolt - the symbol of Jupiter, the Roman god of...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through

...religion, ethnicity, faith and economic well-being are also major barriers in many countries, as are difficulties arising from migration and language use. There are examples in all these instances where currently and historically the argument would be made that ‘they’ could not be educated and were in some way too much of a threat or too vulnerable to be...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs