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Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...et al. (2002) found that 91 per cent said they sometimes withdrew children from classrooms. [Described image] Figure 3 Cindy Bhuhi, bilingual teaching assistant, Lee Infants School, Slough There is a further sense in which teaching assistants have needed to find ‘space’ for their work. As part of a relatively new workforce, they have had to integrate their support...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can mobile technology help underpin reproductive rights?

...Institute for Population and Reproductive Health located at the US-based Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, during the meeting in Kenya on 27 June. The meeting involving the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Nations Population Fund and the Kenya government aimed to assess the country’s progress in addressing family planning issues. “We are...
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How do fire controls harm biodiversity?
Nature & Environment

How do fire controls harm biodiversity?

...Institute of São Paulo, and lead-author of the study, published in the journal Science Advances, says ceasefire policies might be beneficial for Amazonia and the Atlantic Forest but not for El Cerrado. This is an area that needs fire in order to maintain its animal and vegetable species diversity, she explains. “The rise of forest with dense vegetation, with tall trees...
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Standards for better cotton
Money & Business

Standards for better cotton

...Institute] When people think of their clothes and where they come from, they most often imagine a factory in China, India or Bangladesh. A crowded workplace filled with people sewing on buttons and ironing shirts you will wear on a night out. What we often don’t realise is that millions of people were involved in producing your shirt even before it got to that...
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Article 5 mins
European Day of Languages
Languages

European Day of Languages

...institutes, and universities - including the Open University - take part in a celebration of the linguistic diversity of Europe. We can rejoice in the fact that more than half of Europeans (54%) can hold a conversation in at least one additional language, 25% can speak at least two additional languages, and one in ten can speak at least three. (Eurobarometer, 2012) But if...
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Article 5 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). “A shock causes a disturbance, but a healthy and resilient soil will be able to recover, rather than deteriorate.” A diversity of fungi, bacteria, and other organisms such as nematodes, mites, termites, and earthworms live in soils and keep the soils healthy. But agricultural practices, changes in land use, climate change, and...
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Article 20 mins
Introduction to active galaxies
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to active galaxies

...et al; Figure 19 John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton), Mike Disney (University of Wales) and NASA; Figure 20a NASA/IPAC Extragalactic database (NED); Figure 20b Bob Fosbury/European Southern Observatory; Figure 21 Copyright © NRAO/AUI 1998/1999; Figure 22 © 1976 The American Astronomical Society; Figure 23a From 'Peculiar Galaxies', Chapter 5 in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?
Digital & Computing

Has Twitter's role as a political influence been overstated?

...institutions, like Twitter. She sees misrecognition by institutions as a serious violation of justice. The #metoo campaign can therefore be seen as an attempt to address this misrecognition by calling out injustice on social media. In Fraser’s definition of the public sphere and reminiscent of Mills’ famous quote, the hashtag has worked to make a private trouble...
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Article 10 mins