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Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship
History & The Arts

Beyond the babble: social broadcasting and digital citizenship

...statistics, and, often, the de-personalizing of complex issues. This results in overt generalisations, reductionism, a lack of depth, and more recently, a global populist political backlash. [The Audio Booth; Photo Credit: Lucia Scazzocchio. All rights reserved.] The Audio Booth; Photo Credit: Lucia Scazzocchio. All rights reserved. Following the European Referendum in...
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Newry: Frontier town or border city?
Society, Politics & Law

Newry: Frontier town or border city?

...statistics show that the number of new migrants into Newry grew steadily until 2006, though they fell back thereafter as the impact of the international economic downturn began. An examination of work permits issued to A8 nationals shows a peak of 865 issued for the Newry and Mourne district council area in 2006, but this number had fallen to just 280 by 2010. Modern day...
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Artificial intelligence
Digital & Computing

Artificial intelligence

...statistics packages, which is what happens now. So our educational practices will be greatly improved by doing A.I. It’s possible that our brains are too complicated to be understood by something as simple as our brains." [A microchip held between thumbs] The Arguments: Amanda Sharkey [Amanda Sharkey] Dr Amanda Sharkey is a lecturer in the Department of Computer Science...
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Race and Youth Policy: working with young people
Education & Development

Race and Youth Policy: working with young people

...statistics that they gave of the rate at which Black children were being sent to these schools was pretty shocking. ERIC HUNTLEY He was able to provide comprehensive details. It was a systematic approach towards the education of Black children. [APPLAUSE] BERNARD COARD And at the end of it, just about everybody there said to me, you have to turn it into a book. We don’t...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Developing a research question in International Relations
Society, Politics & Law

Developing a research question in International Relations

...statistically significant. But looks can be deceiving. Fortna takes the analysis further by arguing we need to be able to gauge the degree of difficulty of the various cases, as well as the durability of the peace. UN peacekeepers are more likely to be deployed to difficult situations. When you factor that in, Fortna suggests that ‘after 1989, when the International...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs
Animals at the extremes: the desert environment
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: the desert environment

...statistically significant. Activity 8 Drawing on the data provided in Table 4, summarise the physiological strategy for water economy in the degu. Answer In winter when water content of plants is 70–80 per cent, the rate of water intake is relatively high at 40.4 ml day−1. Urine osmolality is correspondingly low at 1123 mOsmol kg−1. In contrast, in the summer the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...statistics tend to obscure the sheer numbers of those with access to radio. Although in both Russia and Italy private ownership rates were low, many people listened to broadcasts in public spaces: in Russia programmes were broadcast over loudspeakers, while in Italy radios were commonplace in cafes and factories (Wasserstein, 2009, p. 235). In contrast, Britain and...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...Statistics (2021) Female Employment Rate (aged 16 to 64, seasonally adjusted). Available at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/timeseries/lf25/lms (Accessed: 22 December 2021). Paterson, L. (2020) ‘Curriculum and opportunity in Scottish secondary education: a half‐century of expansion and inequality’, Curriculum...
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