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20 years in English as a medium of instruction: an unstoppable train?
Languages

20 years in English as a medium of instruction: an unstoppable train?

...project, to show how those two things were connected. ELEMENTAL stands for English as the Language of Education Mechanisms in Europe: New Transdisciplinary Approaches in Linguistics and its core objective was to understand the drivers behind English as a medium of instruction in European higher education. The usual story. The most common explanation for why so many...
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How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?
Nature & Environment

How can corporations reduce digital carbon footprints?

...managing and reducing digital carbon footprints is one that requires changes in policy, procedure and behaviour. This path begins with two fundamental activities that underpin and facilitate the other tips I will share later. First, we must seek to gain an ever-improving snapshot of the organisation’s carbon status quo, or ‘carbon baseline’. Second, we must raise...
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A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis
Nature & Environment

A socially engaged spiritual response to the Climate Crisis

...Management’ for my master’s degree (at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok) in 2005–2006 to further develop my knowledge and skills to engage in sustainability. But I also got an opportunity to learn about alternative education and sustainable development at the Grassroot Leadership Training (GLT) from the Spirit in Education Movement (SEM), a Thai based NGO,...
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Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia
History & The Arts

Silent Invisible Women: Deaf and Muslim in Australia

...manage your multiple identities? This is what I sought to find out. My name is Ayah and I am an Australian Lebanese-Muslim woman with a hearing impairment. I was born and raised in Australia, and growing up I have faced many challenges due to both my ethnicity and my hearing loss. My hearing loss added another barrier I have had to face, not only in the wider Australian...
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ThrustWSH water speed record hub
Science, Maths & Technology

ThrustWSH water speed record hub

In this hub you will find free learning resources related to the ThrustWSH (Water speed hydrofoil) water speed record project.
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Difference and challenge in teams
Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

...manager interested in developing a better team, as you will hear from the audio below (a transcript is also provided). Meetings often descend into all-out war! We never seem to get anywhere with everyone at each other’s throats. I can hold my own in that kind of contest; I sometimes come out on top – winning the argument – but it doesn’t calm things; I leave the...
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A new union flag
History & The Arts

A new union flag

...project in which academics and artists together ask who – during a time when the lines marking out citizens, borders and nations are being redrawn, or drawn more starkly – 'we' are, and who gets to decide. About the authors Marcia Chandra is a visual storyteller with a background in ethnography and development. Much of her work focuses around migration, identity and...
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A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list
Society, Politics & Law

A post-convention Presidential Campaign reading list

...Project - based at the University of California, Santa Barbara - is citing reports giving Donald Trump an average of a +3% poll rating following his Convention. That's a positive, and better than Mitt Romney managed in the 2012 cycle (he actually managed to shave a point off his ratings) but it's on the low side. True, George W Bush only got a 2% uplift when he was...
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