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Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)
Society, Politics & Law

Brexit: What’s this fine mess you’ve gotten us into? (Apologies to Laurel and Hardy)

...social care, all combined with increasingly apparent levels of inequality. Moreover such a disproportion has been felt more keenly in regions outside the SE of England. Playing the blame game When the Conservative Party took power in 2010 (helped by successfully putting the blame entirely on the Party in power, Labour, during what was in reality an international...
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Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...interactions, their physical, social and emotional encounters all contribute to their development, their growing sense of self, of who they are in relation to others and to the growth of their brain. (Goouch and Powell, 2013, p. 1) Although Goouch and Powell found out a great deal about what happens inside a Baby Room, they realised they still had many questions about...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Technological innovation: a resource-based view
Science, Maths & Technology

Technological innovation: a resource-based view

...social scientist may be concerned with how individuals decide whether or not to adopt an innovation, and therefore less interested in whether a product is new to an individual or organisation or not. Alternatively, managers may be concerned with how to prepare their organisation to generate innovations that are new to their industries and markets, or with how their...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Assessment in secondary geography
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary geography

...interaction with one student and to scaffold learning and drill down into knowledge and understanding (this can also include students posing questions) allowing sufficient wait time for a student to respond and, crucially for you to feedback, take some time to evaluate student responses, especially if the answer was unexpected using ‘pose-pause-pounce-bounce’....
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Economics explains discrimination in the labour market
Society, Politics & Law

Economics explains discrimination in the labour market

...interaction between unemployment and wage discrimination among ethnic minority workers. They find that the limited employment prospects faced by ethnic minority workers are significantly more severe than the earnings disadvantage they face. As unemployment in Britain increased in the 1980s and early 1990s, minority ethnic groups suffered disproportionately. Even ethnic...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...social networks and power relations of organisational life, including the influence of self-interest, self-promotion and/or self-preservation among the organisational members whose opinions you are seeking in your TNA research. For instance, when employees are asked to describe the constitutive components of their jobs, they may be motivated to describe an ideal job...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...social realist novel by Margaret Drabble, from an historical romance by Georgette Heyer to a thriller by Patricia D. Cornwell, each written according to a different set of rules. All these publications fall within broadly realist parameters, parameters that stubbornly persist long after realist strategies have lost their status as a ‘high’ art form, although they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...interactive story, so you can understand how animals make choices in their environment and you can take different routes and I think there’s a huge avenue to explore there as well. Using archive in the future You know, it can only be a good thing to allow our audiences to interact with our footage. Some of the stuff that I’ve seen on YouTube where they’ve taken...
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