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Would you want your child to become an interpreter?
Languages

Would you want your child to become an interpreter?

...working at international conferences for high-ranking officials or business tycoons as circulated in local media. On the other hand, the societal valorization of translators and interpreters in Australia and other Anglophone countries remains very low. Translators and interpreters are associated with low-paid casual work that offers little chance for career progression....
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How are drones keeping track of songbirds?
Nature & Environment

How are drones keeping track of songbirds?

...work.” Wilson and his colleagues hope that automated bird surveying with UAVs will eventually be used as an additional technique to augment the work of well-trained field surveyors. “Surveying birds by ear is an impressive skill that encourages ornithologists to spend time out in the field getting to know their study species and their habitats,” says Wilson. “We...
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content
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How OpenLearn uses third-party content

...working the context of a learning brief. They are usually, although not exclusively, working within the Creative Commons community. These trusted repositories include blogs from the LSE and Oxford, SciDevNet, Wellcome Trust's Mosaic website, Languages On The Move, GlobalVoice and The Conversation. The OpenLearn editorial team will review any item selected for publication...
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Understanding Statements of participation
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Understanding Statements of participation

...work through the course you can view your progress using the tracking bar. You can also see which sections you have completed when a tick appears next to the section heading. The tracking bar will reach 100% when you have viewed all of the pages of the course and you have completed any quizzes and assessments, if they are available on that course. After completing the...
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Speak in colours!
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Speak in colours!

...work out the meaning. Amusez-vous bien! White [Image of snow with French idioms concerning the colour white written across the image] Un marriage blanc- (lit. a white marriage), a sham marriage/ a marriage of convenience Montrer patte blanche- (lit. to show a white paw), to show one’s credentials De but en blanc- (lit. from the target in white), point blank Red [Image...
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I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...Social Care courses and qualifications. What’s it like to be a teenager with cancer? What changes? Does anything change? We’ve all had questions about cancer. It’s scary. And unfamiliar to most. When did you get cancer? I was sixteen. It was my sixth and final year of high school. Pressures and prospects on the horizon. At that time there’s a certain degree of...
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What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?
Nature & Environment

What effect does increasing noise pollution have on mammals?

...social bonds and keeping a watchful eye out for both competitors and hungry predators. With increasing levels of man-made noise in the environment, animals are having to contend more and more with external stimuli which can draw their attention away from these key tasks. And the consequences of failing to focus on lurking dangers can be deadly. [Prairie dogs break for...
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What’s the big deal about virginity?
History & The Arts

What’s the big deal about virginity?

...socially accepted alternative to marriage and motherhood. The great importance assigned to Mary’s virginity can also be related to an increasing trend within Christian churches to present sex as sinful and to dissociate Jesus’ birth from sexual intercourse as far as possible. From this point of view, sexuality (female sexuality in particular) has been regarded as a...
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