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Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago
Nature & Environment

Electric bus was killed off 100 years ago

...writes in his excellent new book, A Most Deliberate Swindle, much of this pollution could have been avoided. More than a century ago the technology existed for electric vehicles – hailed today as one of the main ways to tackle the urban pollution crisis. The adoption of a revolutionary vehicle called the electrobus could have ushered in an age of clean transport – and...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
Languages

How Spanish sounded across its history

...writing. Their texts have a strong influence in what are considered the Golden Ages of Spanish Literature. Listen to this extract from Libro de la Vida (1565), her first book, her autobiography. Here she tells us about her first months in the monastery, where she originally is taken without much vocation, and how she starts changing her mind by speaking to another more...
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Extending your learning with postgraduate skills
Education & Development

Extending your learning with postgraduate skills

...write academically. I have had to work hard on this as am still very slow but now write something every day and can see how this is helping me at work, even with emails." - Sara "Studying on the course has made a difference to the way I work with colleagues so that I am better able to support them. This has led me to take on a CPD whole-school role." - Vish "The modules...
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Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens and the dinosaurs

...writings of his friend Charles Dickens. Gowan Dawson offers an historical overview of Owen, noted British anatomist and paleontologist, and suggests Dickens incorporated Owen’s paleontological analogies into his own “compositional practices” as a response to criticism of his serial novels. Dickens’s early works were often criticized for an “absence of design,”...
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Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...and what a great way to instil a better work-life balance into your lifestyle. Read more: Energy in buildings (Free course) Could we control our climate? (Free course) Climate change: Transitions to sustainability (Free course) How much electronic waste do we generate as a species? (Article) How to include climate issues in your writing – Writing for climate (Videos)...
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‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library
History & The Arts

‘Literary Caregiving’: The War Library and Endell Street Military Hospital Library

...writing up the results now, in an article on war-time bibliotherapy co-authored with my colleague Dr Edmund King. Watch this space for further updates! Endell Street: learning, researching, expanding the story [Deeds Not Words - still from the drama] A still from the immersive drama on Endell Street Military Hospital As I say in the film, I came across Digital Drama’s...
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Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism
History & The Arts

Charles Dickens, Race and Colonialism

...writing plays with inferences about the comparative savagery of Victorian society and in his memorable figure of Mrs Jellyby in Bleak House (1850) he suggests that the British should pay attention to the mounting social problems at home before practising ‘telescopic’ philanthropy and missionary work abroad. (In this last concern, his writing anticipates one of the...
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Supporting children’s learning in primary education today
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in primary education today

...write three bullet points that capture what you think influences your ideas about the purposes of education...Supporting children’s learning in primary education today: 1.2 An overview of primary education today - In each UK nation – England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales – children aged three to four years old are entitled to free early education from the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs