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Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys
Society, Politics & Law

Explore the range of migrant experiences: Play Uneven Journeys

...educate participants about a relatively unknow phenomenon: citizenship-by-investment programmes, whereby the wealthy could effectively ‘purchase citizenship’ by virtue of their investment in a particular country. In educating participants on the variety of citizenship-by-investment programmes, the installation was also meant to challenge our understandings of...
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Activity 30 mins
Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology
History & The Arts

Afterword to Representing Religions: Race, Rationality, Colonialism and Anthropology

...technologies for communicating with the dead were blended together with Western communication technologies. Once posed in this way, the question about action became one of agency and power rather than one of rationality. This was of a piece with my main point which was to argue that scientific-anthropological knowledge about Cargo cults gained much of its currency and...
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Video 20 mins
Design Behind the Bike
Science, Maths & Technology

Design Behind the Bike

...technology on cycling and explores how the development in technology has changed bike design and build over the last 100 years. The series of five films explores the development of technology, components, materials and innovation used to build and design new bicycles for the current market. The series includes the history of the bicycle, Materials explores the products...
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Audio 43 mins
Computers are everywhere
History & The Arts

Computers are everywhere

A timeline of developments in information and communication technologies, from the Spanish Armada to just-before-we-started-to-Google...This timeline obviously ends just as things were getting really interesting - we've left it online for information, but why not visit our Technology section for the latest developments - and a taste of the future?
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Activity 10 mins
Budget 2017: Instant reactions
Money & Business

Budget 2017: Instant reactions

...education, the government will fund 1,000 new PhDs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The budget also confirmed the terms of doctoral loans of up to £25,000 each for doctoral study, and maintenance loans for part-time undergraduates. Welfare Donald Hirsch, Director, Centre for Research in Social Policy, Loughborough University Cuts in welfare were at...
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Article 5 mins
Brass Instruments
History & The Arts

Brass Instruments

Technology and music have been closely associated since the very first musical instruments were constructed, and in the 19th century an explosion of invention revolutionised the way brass instruments could be played. The 14 video tracks on this album introduce the basic acoustical principles of brass instruments and how technical developments have affected the way they...
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Audio 1 hr 10 mins
Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...educating families whose children had previously been enrolled in schools...Why is this increasing, and what should be done? The number of children and young people deregistering from UK schools to begin home education has risen significantly in recent years. As Anna Chinazzi suggests, schools can learn from home educators, as education departments across the world...
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Article 5 mins
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...Technology and education are developing and increasingly go hand in hand. As it is likely you will use a computer or a tablet to study, it is important to ensure that you are confident in your digital skills to help you be an effective learner. To be an apprentice distance learner, the following digital skills are likely to help you be successful in your studies: Knowing...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs