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How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences
Society, Politics & Law

How to provide a trauma-informed police response to victims of rape and serious sexual offences

...work and provide a space for them to demonstrate the work they have done with a victim, is important to them. Additionally, raising supervisor awareness of the types of issues FROs experience on a regular basis further contextualises the impact these cases can have on a FRO. Given that RASSO cases are often allocated to the same officers, having channels to communicate...
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Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...work and the need to fight for freedom, not take it for granted. When she later spoke of her father’s influence, she touched a nerve not just of the American spirit, but something universal. Her words awoke memories in us all of significant moments when we too have reflected on those who shaped us. Transcending race and nationality, Obama demonstrated her power as a...
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The Z Files: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Z Files: Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock

...work, but if you work hard enough you can make it. I love my work. When I tell people I’m a sort of space scientist and they sort of do a double take, so what exactly do you do? Because they assume I’m sort of in admin or something, but no I sort of get my hands dirty and I sort of build satellites and build instrumentation, and that’s what I love doing. But what I...
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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...and the networks needed to connect it all together – are the same. As they do work to process and create data, they consume energy, of which a great deal is turned into heat. To avoid damage, this heat must be removed through cooling which itself is another major consumer of energy in the cloud. In some of the very best hyperscale data centres, the amount of energy used to cool is one tenth of that used to power the ......
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Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...working adults to retired adults is disturbing. Predictions are, that by 2030 the ratio will be two working adults to every retired person, instead of three to one now, and four to one ten years ago. Often ratios are implicit in the language rather than explicitly referred to: one teacher for 30 pupils; 2.4 children per woman of child bearing age; one retired person per...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...Social strategies help the learner work with others and understand the target culture as well as the target language. Reflection point To what extent have you observed students using these strategies in your own school context?...Teaching secondary modern foreign languages: 3.2 Promoting independent learning - Using learning strategies such as those outlined above implies...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...worked in the temple of Amun at Karnak during the reign of Amenhotep III (c. 1390-1352 BC). Amenhotep was one of the most important kings of the 18th Dynasty, one of the high points of Egyptian wealth, but his reign preceded a period of dramatic upheaval in Egyptian society. In 1820 eleven pieces were removed from the walls of the tomb-chapel, location now unknown, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Tracing your family history
History & The Arts

Tracing your family history

...work back a generation, you double the number of direct ancestors; thus you have four grandparents, eight great-grandparents and so on. Continue adding data to the tree until you've run out of information, or are unsure about how accurate it is. Your job is to fill in some of the blanks, or eradicate any questions you might have about the 'facts' you have unearthed to...
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