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The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...de la Chine (The Chinese Orphan) before a bust of the then exiled author The philosophes saw themselves as engaged in a battle for minds; they appealed to something which they saw and cultivated as a new factor in European society: public opinion. It was with public opinion in mind that they criticised existing institutions in France and what they saw as a corrupt and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Rhieni a gwarcheidwaid: Ateb eich cwestiynau
Education & Development

Rhieni a gwarcheidwaid: Ateb eich cwestiynau

...De Cymru yma i ateb eich cwestiynau. ...Cyngor ar gyfer y broses ymgeisio A ydych chi’n pendroni sut allwch chi gymryd rhan a chynnig cefnogaeth yn ystod y broses ymgeisio? Yn y fideo hwn, mae Alexandra yn cynnig cyngor ymarferol mewn perthynas â sut allwch chi gynorthwyo eich person ifanc yn ystod o broses o wneud penderfyniad, o fynychu dyddiau agored i geisiadau...
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The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...classes. The cabinets were designed to amaze the viewer with each object telling its own story. The impetus behind much of this lay in men's piety and superstition that valued the rare or peculiar - a prized horn from a unicorn, unusually shaped stones, monstrosities of nature. Perhaps most famous of these was 'Tradescant's Ark,' a collection of items that came to form...
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Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...de Prony who had been commissioned to draw up new books of tables for the French government. De Prony’s task was immense; he would need to create logarithms for all of the numbers from 1 to 10,000 – accurate to nineteen decimal places, and the sines of angles to no less than twenty-five decimal places! De Prony’s solution was to create three teams of mathematicians....
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Article 15 mins
Parlez-vous Eurovision?
Languages

Parlez-vous Eurovision?

...La La La, Ding-a-dong, Boom Bang-a-bang, A-ba-ni-bi, and Diggi-Doo Diggi-Ley. France, Italy, Spain and Portugal have always sung in one of their official languages, sometimes combined with a few words in English. Even partial use of the English language in their entries has gathered criticism: there were complaints in France when their song "Divine" included verses in...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...classes, ethnic groups, or gender (Pullin, 1993). Equity issues are particularly important when assessment results are used to label students or deny them access to courses or careers in the future. Cooper (1998) conducted research using the English National Curriculum KS3 test questions, which suggests some potential lack of fairness in testing regimes. It is likely that...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'
Society, Politics & Law

Arnold Circus, London: social housing for the 'deserving poor'

...Class in England , 1845. To remedy what Engels described as ‘a mass of helplessness and misery’, London County Council cleared the slum and built Arnold Circus. Unfortunately, the original slum inhabitants could not afford the rents of these first council houses so they were forced into new slums further to the east. The Boundary Estate: mapping poverty [Copyright:...
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The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?
Society, Politics & Law

The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer?

...class-bound universities. (The shadow chancellor of the exchequer called the idea “blithering nonsense.”). Yet somehow the OU quickly put itself on the map. When it opened its virtual doors, 25,000 students soon enrolled, at a time when the combined student population of all other British universities was around 130,000. Before long, the new institution was...
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