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Exploring communications technology
Digital & Computing

Exploring communications technology

...interactive chart. Click on the image of the electromagnetic spectrum below to learn more about the highlighted part of the spectrum (radio and microwave frequencies). You will see that this part of the spectrum is conventionally divided into bands, each covering a decade in frequency (or wavelength). Make a note of the frequencies and wavelengths and the typical uses of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Dan Rees - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Dan Rees - Earth in Vision

...social media and harnessing campaigning around that issue. I thought that was a tremendous bit of programming and very inspiring. What I’m most proud of… From my own perspective of a single piece of work I’m probably the proudest of was the final programme of Frozen Planet called On Thin Ice, which was a show about the effects of climate change on the Poles, both...
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Video 30 mins
Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are women leaders the key to growing women’s sport?

...Social Issues, 42(5), pp. 393–414. doi: 10.1177/0193723518790086. Piggott, L.V. and Pike, E.C.J. (2019) ‘CEO equals man’: gender and informal organisational practices in English sport governance’, International Review for the Sociology of Sport, pp. 1–17. doi: 10.1177/1012690219865980. Sport England (2019a) Active Lives Children and Young People Survey, Academic...
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Article 15 mins
Scottish nurses striking out
Society, Politics & Law

Scottish nurses striking out

...Social Sciences courses. Setting the scene On 12 August 2022, Scotland’s highest circulation broadsheet newspaper, The Herald, carried a headline exclaiming ‘Nurses set to strike for first time in their history’. While the words made an eye-catching headline, they failed to recognise, and in effect denied, the history of industrial action by nurses, mainly women, in...
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Article 5 mins
Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing
History & The Arts

Ian McMillan's Writing Lab interviews: Mark Ravenhill on... play writing

...social class has its own vocabulary, and they change year on year, and I think one of the jobs of a playwright is to listen to those and keep up to date with those. I think on the whole you instinctively listen to the different rhythms of the way that people speak. Some people do speak in a more kind of flowing, mellow kind of a way, and some people have a more kind of...
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Audio 15 mins
Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will we ever be able to trust an AI sports coach?

...social influence on technology adoption’, International Sport Coaching Journal, 9(2). Mazurova, E., Standaert, W., Penttinen, E. and Ter Chian Tan, F. (2021) ‘Paradoxical tensions related to AI-powered evaluation systems in competitive sports’, Inf Syst Front, 24, pp. 897–922. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-021-10215-8. Sperlich,...
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Article 5 mins
A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...social activist at St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town...It was a grey, damp Boxing day morning 2021 in England and the very sad news arrived of the death at age 90 of Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu earlier that morning in Cape Town after a full and active life of great moral conviction and compassion for humanity. Online messaging technology, not available at the time of...
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Article 10 mins
Advanced Spanish: Art in Buenos Aires
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Art in Buenos Aires

...social. Y cada uno dibujo, y despues mezclamos los dibujos. Ricardo Lo que me preocupa mucho es la simpleza de todas estas formas y la complejidad de estas formas. ¿Como se puede equilibrar? Cristina Terzaghi Claro, esto como... como significádo de forma es múy potente porqué es el puente, y este gáncho, estás formas són... este... las vamos á apaciguar en color...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs