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Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Northern Ireland)

...students. How much clay will each group get? Figure 3 Expressed as a decimal: 35 ÷ 8 You can see that each group would get 4.375 kg of clay. Activity 3: Expressing a remainder as a decimal Work out the answers to the following without using a calculator. 178 ÷ 4 212 ÷ 5 63 ÷ 8 227 ÷ 4 Answer 44.5 42.4 7.875 56.75...Session 1: Working with numbers: 1.2 Interpreting...
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...become very important. There are many different types of data. Continuous data is something you measure, like, the length of a piece of wood. A box of nails is usually something you can count, which is called discrete data. Different ways of displaying data include using graphs. A line graph can show the relationship between some data about a shelf. A pie chart can show...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences
Education & Development

Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences

...students and professionals alike...Although ethics is often viewed as an academic specialism or an add-on to training programmes in technology and science, it is in fact an area of the utmost relevance to professionals and, indeed, everyone. This free course, Introducing ethics in Information and Computer Sciences, draws upon examples taken from dialogues, plays and the...
Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?
History & The Arts

Do tax breaks work well for promoting creative industries?

...student animator at the Vancouver Film School] An animator at the Vancouver Film School Little Witch Academia This past weekend, I watched the short film Little Witch Academia, which I enjoyed immensely. (It’s stunning to think that it packs more action and character into the same amount of time as an episode of any TV show.) What piqued my interest in the short in...
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...student events of 1968, but also about the state of the nation from a New Left stance. British cinema, whether mainstream or amateur, has always reflected contemporary society but always engaged with its cultural and social values. It’s usually reinforced them, occasionally contested them but always provided an insight into the social history of the period, from the...
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...become generally known until 1900 when natural selection and Mendelian genetics were simultaneously rediscovered by scientists. In the 1880s, German biologist August Weismann published his germ-plasm theory defending natural selection. His ideas became known as neo-Darwinism. The rediscovery of Mendel’s theory of heredity in 1900 led to an emphasis on the role of...
Lying and politics: a brief primer
Society, Politics & Law

Lying and politics: a brief primer

...becomes a way of life and then you're living with long term duplicity you've got this going on a big time in our politics now and we start to normalize it. Tony Thorne When politicians are accused of lying they bristle and they they they bluster and they they they overreact partly this is because they hope by a strong reaction they can deflect the accusation but partly...
Textiles in Ghana
History & The Arts

Textiles in Ghana

...becomes cool, because if it is hot you can’t put this ….. in, and remove it from here to this small barrel. Gabriel (contd) This is white cloth - you want to change it into black. When you put it in first it looks like brown, but by two weeks’ time it will change into black. It takes two weeks, it made ……. Sun. And when it dries you bring it back, and wet it...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs