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The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series
Money & Business

The Financial Five a Day Podcast Series

...think more purposefully about your personal finance and money habits...Please note, the information provided in these podcasts do not constitute regulated financial advice or recommendation and should not be considered as such. The Financial Five a Day Podcast is not regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), its guests are not financial advisors and, therefore,...
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Audio 5 mins
Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance
Education & Development

Emotion in motion: Supporting children’s understanding of different emotions through dance

...think about how you could use it to do something ‘more’ than just make up a dance. Think about what you can explore, characterise or represent. Dancemotion is not about asking children ‘how do you feel?’, or always making it about them personally. This is not therapy, but a potential vehicle to help children develop skills in an engaging manner. Use books, short...
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Article 15 mins
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...think, as Paul Gilroy did, that the assimilation of transnational diasporas and migrants is not a process of acculturation, but of cultural syncretism. So how can national symbols, such as flags, represent Britain’s cultural syncretism? Can we mash up or remix different heritages in a national flag to make manifest, materially at least, this idea? In fact, the Union...
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Article 10 mins
Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?
Education & Development

Distance education: Do students believe it should be fun?

...think that would be called fun?!? - Lots of relevant up to date/current activities, that can be related to in real life. Meeting other students doing the same course is good, and feels supportive, but not many take up the opportunity. - Fun to have a non-serious outlook helps for some and at different times through their learning experience; to be able to cope and show...
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Article 20 mins
How I wrote Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How I wrote Frankenstein

...think of, and to dilate upon, so very hideous an idea?" It is true that I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print; but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can scarcely accuse myself of a personal intrusion. It is not singular that, as the...
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Article 5 mins
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...think is the most popular item of clothing in the world now. (2012) Social norms and expectations vary in different cultural, geographical and social contexts and are often subject to change within different historical periods and between different generations. The great popularity of denim jeans across the world is, for example, a relatively recent phenomenon. Wider and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...thinking skills, collaboration and communication skills, and problem-solving skills (Qian and Clark, 2016). Computers and the internet Computers are widely used by children and teenagers both at home and at school. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which runs the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), identified that 96% of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Who counts as a refugee?
Society, Politics & Law

Who counts as a refugee?

...systems – or discourses – allows us to think about alternative or counter discourses through which opposition to dominant policy discourses may be presented. Forms of feminist and postcolonial theory will also be drawn on. Feminism alerts us to the impact of gender on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers and how discourses of gender run through relevant...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs