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A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents
Education & Development

A guide to developing trust with home-educating parents

...Points for reflection How is your view of home education conveyed through your direct and indirect communications? How do you involve home-educating parents in developing your offer of support? How can you build trust with the parents you work with? It may be helpful to use a simple model of reflection, such as ‘What? So what? Now what?’, to structure your thinking....
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Tackling juror trauma and stress
Society, Politics & Law

Tackling juror trauma and stress

...simple and significant changes and improvements to services are likely to take time. However, strategies can focus on three broad domains; pre-trial, concurrent to the case, and post-trial. Support within trials could take the format of more clear preparation for jurors on the type of distressing content they may encounter within trials, and guidance on coping strategies...
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COVID Chronicles from the Margins
Society, Politics & Law

COVID Chronicles from the Margins

...simple, every day acts of solidarity with neighbours that have sustained her through lockdown. [Photo by Andrea Ibarra-Abreu] 'Anguish' by Andrea Ibarra-Abreu Andrea, an 18-year old art student, represents COVID19 quarantine with a photo called 'Anguish'. Fleeing political persecution, she recently moved to the UK with her family from Venezuela. This self-portrait...
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Download our Chinese characters learning apps
Languages

Download our Chinese characters learning apps

...simple texts in characters. If you travel to China or other Chinese speaking places, whether for business or pleasure, you can play with the app at the airport, and land in your destination able to recognise some signs and say some useful expressions such as computers and mobiles, the internet, shops, and travelling by train, taxi or plane. Isn't Chinese really hard to...
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Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one
Science, Maths & Technology

Someone’s attacking our connection to the internet - part one

...simple box with a few blinking lights on it, a router is a computer; it runs software – known as firmware; and this software can be compromised by the writers of malicious software. Router firmware is a tempting target for attackers since it is widespread, rarely updated and many users never change the default settings that make their routers possible. VPNFilter attacks...
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Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent
Education & Development

Dealing with feedback when you are neurodivergent

...simple strategies can help make feedback feel more manageable. What is feedback? Feedback is defined by the Cambridge dictionary as: ‘Information or statements of opinion about something, such as a new product, that can tell you if it is successful or liked.’ While this might make you think about study or work, we get feedback in all aspects of our lives. Think about...
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Ten top tips for writing a novel
History & The Arts

Ten top tips for writing a novel

...simple. Get a cat. Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed that a contented cat was a great aid to the deep concentration needed for novel writing. It works like this – the cat sees your desk lamp, decides it’s a good place for a nap, and settles down happily while you work. ‘Its presence alone is enough,’ Spark said. ‘The effect of a cat...
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The trouble with teaching physics
Health, Sports & Psychology

The trouble with teaching physics

...simple as presenting students with facts to memorise. Students have their own ideas about the world based on their everyday experiences. For example, students sometimes mistakenly think that light and electricity flow like water or that cold is not the absence of heat, but a substance with a physical location that can flow from one place to another. The trouble is that...
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