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Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...de-schooling, so not sitting doing work every day at certain times. Being allowed to not do anything academic if that was needed at that point in time. Most educational professionals from the school system just don't get it. - _Participant IDAA003 EHE students interviewed discussed two motives for doing the exams; one, on a needs basis, like maths or English for...
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Article 5 mins
Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system
Science, Maths & Technology

Food, shelter and re-designing home as a living system

...de Sus, M. (June, 2022) ‘The Shift Directives: From Financialized to Human-rights Based Housing’, Make the Shift Report. Available at: https://make-the-shift.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Directives-Updated-Dec-9.pdf (Accessed: 24 December 2023). Joseph Rowntree Foundation. (2024) ‘Designing out hardship and destitution’. Available at:
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Article 5 mins
The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

The case of Simone Biles and perceptions of athlete mental health

...de Janeiro five years prior. Despite a few mishaps during qualification, Biles advanced to several finals. During the team final on 27 July 2021, Biles hesitated on her vault mid-air and subsequently left the competition floor before returning shortly after. She later withdrew from the remainder of the team final due to mental health issues, saying she didn’t want to...
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Article 10 mins
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...DE/BKG (2009). Inst Geogr National Figure 9: Map showing the Central African Republic and the Republic of the Congo (to be distinguished from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south and east of it) Map data © 2024 Google Figure 10: Sundanese saron https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambar:Saron_laras_Pelog_dan_Salendro_koleksi_Jurusan_Karawitan_ISBI_Bandung.jpg Deed...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study
Health, Sports & Psychology

Doping: a contemporary sports issue case study

...de France. 1968 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) issues a list of banned substances. First ever testing at Mexico City Olympics results in Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall, a member of the Swedish modern pentathlon team, being stripped of his bronze medal. 1972 Blood doping method is invented in Sweden: removing blood, increasing the concentration of red blood cells in a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
How the sausage links us together
History & The Arts

How the sausage links us together

...Des Moines in 1959 (“we have beaten you to the moon, but you have beaten us in sausage making” he apparently quipped) to the advice given in a 16th-century Spanish medical text that men who wished to engender intelligent, handsome boys should avoid eating sausages before having sex. The origins of the sausage lie, then, in the very origins of human cookery yet retain...
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Article 5 mins
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...de Mille award at the 2018 Golden Globes, Oprah Winfrey claimed that “speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have”. She then shared the story of Recy Taylor, who died ten days earlier. Recy Taylor was a black woman who was raped in Alabama by six white men in 1944. The case drew national attention as a key moment of injustice for black women as two...
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Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza
Health, Sports & Psychology

Belfast: Racing to the top for the Grande Partenza

...de France in the world of cycling and previously, cities such as Monte Carlo, Nice and Amsterdam have hosted the event. The eyes of the world are on Belfast this week, expecting great things from the place and its people, as 200 of the world’s top cyclists descend on our city. And they will get it! Shop fronts, cafés, office blocks and even road signs are decked in...
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