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Seeing institutions in different ways
Society, Politics & Law

Seeing institutions in different ways

...children between particular ages go to school (the institution of education or schooling) leaders are elected by popular vote (the institution of democracy) people with insufficient income receive benefits in cash or kind (the institution of welfare) people have a choice as to how and from whom they obtain goods and services (the institution of the market) although not...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
An introduction to visualising development data
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to visualising development data

...children per woman’ (just what that word “average” actually means we’ll return to later). But why do I assume this? The title talks about a fertility rate, which means the fertility per something. That something is presumably “per woman” (though we do not know if it means “per women who have at least one child” or “calculated over every woman in the...
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Video 45 mins
The formation of exoplanets
Science, Maths & Technology

The formation of exoplanets

...research today were foretold by key discoveries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In 1783, an unseen companion was presented as an explanation of the peculiar periodic dimming observed for the bright star Algol, and in 1844 the observation of a periodic change in position of the bright stars Sirius and Procyon uncovered their two unseen companions. The concept...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...centre, with a metropolitan destiny; but the strange thing about Liverpool and the like English towns is that they are without any social consciousness. Their meek millions are socially unborn; they can come into the world only in London, and in their prenatal obscurity they remain folded in a dreamless silence, while all the commercial and industrial energies rage round...
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Article 10 mins
How can honour killings be stopped?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can honour killings be stopped?

...Centre. It aimed at preventing honour based violence through educational training activities with communities delivered by 15 predominately BME women’s organisations from across the country. The participants, mainly survivors and women from the communities, reported raised awareness of their rights, where to seek help and wanting to do more to tackle the problem. Some...
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Article 10 mins
Careers education and guidance
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance

...centre (in England), the school's Connexions PA (in England) and the school's higher education specialists to give them the more detailed knowledge they need. You will also need to know what financial help is available to students who need it to enable them to continue in full-time education after 16. More information for colleagues in English schools is available from...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...researcher, Marcus Hutchins, who accidentally discovered and activated the ‘kill switch’ of the malware the next day, on 13 May 2017. When inspecting the malware’s code, Hutchins noticed an unusually long internet domain name in the code. He checked and found out that the domain name was not registered, so he registered it. Unknown to him at the time, this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...researchers are observing the woodpecker finch, using this wooden box to stand in for a tree. The woodpecker finch is one of the only birds to use tools to help it find food. A stick or small twig enables it to dig deeper into tree bark for insect larvae. This skill enables it to survive in conditions which other birds would find difficult. In the dry season, it can...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs