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The Romantics
History & The Arts

The Romantics

...and studying literature... Romantic authorship Professor Andrew Bennett discusses the idea of authorship. The self How did Romantic writers represent ‘the self’? Wordsworth and De Quincy Bill Greenwell adapts one of Wordsworth’s poems ‘To daffodils’ in the voice of Thomas De Quincy. Romantic timelines What is the impact of writing in different literary periods?...
Audio 31 mins
Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action (Wales)

...class teacher and brings her distinctive practice to a maths lesson. Teaching assistants are a very significant and essential resource in primary classrooms, so much so that it is hard to imagine how schools could manage without them. This unit is an adapted extract from the Open University course E111 Supporting learning in primary schools. This unit is also available in...
What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?
Education & Development

What's the problem with the government's plans for our schools?

...classes and that we are facing a chronic shortage of teachers, the whole area of the government’s strategic planning in education is called into question. [David Cameron visits the Magna Academy in Poole] David Cameron on a visit to the Magna Academy, Poole A sticking plaster approach As parliament’s public accounts committee pointed out in January 2015: “The DfE...
Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher
Education & Development

Remedying the impact of school closures: be kind, thank a teacher

...class homes had accessed synchronous or asynchronous learning opportunities, compared with just 16% of working class pupils. The Children’s Commissioner for England rightly highlights concerns around the widening of this disadvantage gap, most often noticed during the longer summer break. The digital divide has also widened – not all families have access to multiple...
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...de la Chine (The Chinese Orphan) before a bust of the then exiled author The philosophes saw themselves as engaged in a battle for minds; they appealed to something which they saw and cultivated as a new factor in European society: public opinion. It was with public opinion in mind that they criticised existing institutions in France and what they saw as a corrupt and...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Rhieni a gwarcheidwaid: Ateb eich cwestiynau
Education & Development

Rhieni a gwarcheidwaid: Ateb eich cwestiynau

...De Cymru yma i ateb eich cwestiynau. ...Cyngor ar gyfer y broses ymgeisio A ydych chi’n pendroni sut allwch chi gymryd rhan a chynnig cefnogaeth yn ystod y broses ymgeisio? Yn y fideo hwn, mae Alexandra yn cynnig cyngor ymarferol mewn perthynas â sut allwch chi gynorthwyo eich person ifanc yn ystod o broses o wneud penderfyniad, o fynychu dyddiau agored i geisiadau...
The Rise of Museums
History & The Arts

The Rise of Museums

...classes. The cabinets were designed to amaze the viewer with each object telling its own story. The impetus behind much of this lay in men's piety and superstition that valued the rare or peculiar - a prized horn from a unicorn, unusually shaped stones, monstrosities of nature. Perhaps most famous of these was 'Tradescant's Ark,' a collection of items that came to form...
Ada Lovelace Day
Science, Maths & Technology

Ada Lovelace Day

...de Prony who had been commissioned to draw up new books of tables for the French government. De Prony’s task was immense; he would need to create logarithms for all of the numbers from 1 to 10,000 – accurate to nineteen decimal places, and the sines of angles to no less than twenty-five decimal places! De Prony’s solution was to create three teams of mathematicians....