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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...et al., 2017). It stands to reason that children who enjoy reading tend to read more and thus become better at reading, yet choosing to read also impacts on children’s wider educational attainment. For example, Reading for Pleasure is positively associated with comprehension, grammar and wider vocabulary (Sullivan and Brown, 2015). In addition, it was found in one study...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Making decisions
Money & Business

Making decisions

...et al., 2004). One of the leading exponents of this emerging field of behavioural finance, Werner de Bondt, suggests that: For at least forty years psychologists have amassed evidence that economic man is very unlike a real man and that reason – for now, defined by the principles that underlie expected utility theory, Bayesian learning and rational expectations – is...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Young children, the outdoors and nature Badge icon
Education & Development

Young children, the outdoors and nature

...et al. (2014) remind us that there can often be much higher concentrations of bacteria within an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) setting than outside and of course world events such as the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has led to a renewed interest in using the outdoors as a protective factor against spreading disease. Research offers evidence in several areas...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...et cetera. I think it helped me win all of these races where they’re spending much more money than I spent. On Twitter, Trump is behaving like the celebrity he is – cutting out the troublesome middleman to promote himself and his policies without the inconvenience of long-form explanation. The limit of 140 characters is perfect for communicating emotion rather than...
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Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people
Society, Politics & Law

Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people

...et al. (2016) argue that resilience is much more complex and that its determinants could include a range of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors. An interplay of these different factors certainly goes a long way in explaining how Zimbabweans respond to stressful situations. The country’s consistently high literacy rate over the years, underpinned by a...
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Article 10 mins
Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: The Empire Marketing Board

...et al (2019 ) have argued that the EMB underlay two-thirds of this change, Higgins and Varian (2019, 2021) argue that ingrained consumer preferences (for instance for Danish over empire butter, and Argentinian over Australian beef), and consumer price sensitivity, amongst other things, meant the impact was far less. Examining the data for trade shifts after key product...
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Article 5 mins
Where do we get the help that really counts?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Where do we get the help that really counts?

...et al, 2015). Those people that do get professional help still value other forms of support with informal sources being widely used. In a survey about support for mental health problems in the UK (Open University 2011) 71% of respondents reported receiving informal support from family and friends. Get professional help, but confide in people closest to you also. It’s...
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Article 10 mins
Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time
Science, Maths & Technology

Astronomers think they’ve just spotted an ‘invisible’ black hole for the first time

...et al. There are many rogue black holes that are drifting through space without interacting with anything, however – making them hard to detect. That’s a problem, because if we can’t detect isolated black holes, then we can’t learn about how they formed and about the deaths of the stars they came from. New, dark horizons To discover such an invisible black hole,...
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Article 11 hrs 27 mins